Atlas Biblica

    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Canaan. Every Canaan in the Bible

    person

    Canaan

    כְּנַ֫עַן

    Canaan, the son of Ham, was the father of Sidon, Heth, and other Canaanite tribes.

    verses
    9
    first named
    Genesis 9:18
    last named
    1 Chronicles 1:16
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Canaan?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Canaan was the fourth son of Ham and the grandson of Noah (Gen. 9:18, 22; 10:6; 1Chr. 1:8). He became the progenitor of the Canaanite tribes, which inhabited the land that would later be promised to Abraham and his descendants (Gen. 10:15-19; 1Chr. 1:13-16). Canaan's sons included Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, the ancestor of the Hittites. Other descendants of Canaan included the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. After Noah's drunkenness, Ham saw his father's nakedness and told his brothers (Gen. 9:22). In response, Noah cursed Canaan, stating that he would be a servant to his brothers (Gen. 9:25-27). This curse was likely a prophetic declaration about the future subjugation of the Canaanite tribes by the Israelites. The land of Canaan became synonymous with the region God promised to Abraham, and the Canaanites were among the inhabitants the Israelites were to displace and conquer (Gen. 12:5-7; Ex. 3:8; Deut. 7:1-3).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Canaan 10 of 23 entities the graph connects to Canaan, in 2 groups: kinship 6, events 4. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AmoritesProgenitor of · 86 versesHethFather of · Progenitor of · 58 versesJebusitesProgenitor of · 37 versesHivitesProgenitor of · 25 versesHamChild of · 1 event · 10 versesGirgashitesProgenitor of · 7 versesKinshipSon1 event · 218 versesJavan1 event · 31 versesShem1 event · 17 versesJapheth1 event · 11 versesEventsCanaan

    The 10 best-attested of 23 are drawn. All 23 are listed below.

    Child of

    Father of

    Progenitor of

    Sibling of

    • Cushregistry, no verse
    • Egyptregistry, no verse
    • Putregistry, no verse

    Stands in the same events as

    and 2 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

    No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.

    Not read yet

    The pattern

    Where Canaan is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 9 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS7 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 9 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS7 VERSES1 CHRONICLES2 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Canaan is named in 9 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 9, across 2 books.

    1. Genesis7 verses

      9:189:229:259:269:2710:610:15

    2. 1 Chronicles2 verses

      1:81:13

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via HamJaphethSon of Noah, ancestor of Indo-European peoplesvia HamNaamahDaughter of Lamech and Zillah, sister of Tubal-cain.via HamNoahRighteous man, built ark, survived floodvia HamShemNoah's son, ancestor of Semitic peoplesvia HivitesMizpeh ValleyA region near Mount Hermonvia HivitesZibeonHivite grandfather of Esau's wife Oholibamahvia EgyptAnamimDescendants of Mizraim, son of Hamvia EgyptCaphtorimDescendants of Mizraim who displaced the Avvimvia EgyptCasluhimDescendants of Mizraim, ancestor of Philistines
    ElsewhereGenealogy of CanaanEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on