Definition

Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him

Etymology

from H3665 (כָּנַע); humiliated;

Word family

• כָּנַע kânaʻ

How the KJV renders it

• Canaan
• merchant
• traffick

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.