One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Canaan. Every Canaan in the Bible
place · also Canaanite
Canaan
כְּנַ֫עַןΧαναάν
- verses
- 146
- first named
- Genesis 10:18
- last named
- Acts 13:19
- feature
- region
- coordinates
- 32.77°N · 35.33°E
Canaan (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Canaan in the text
Canaan refers to both a region and a people group in the Bible. As a region, Canaan was the ancient name for the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and parts of Syria and Jordan. It was the land God promised to give to Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 12:5-7; 17:8).
The Canaanites were the descendants of Canaan, the grandson of Noah through Ham (Genesis 10:18-19). They were known for their idolatry and wickedness, which led to God commanding the Israelites to drive them out of the land (Deu.20.17). The term "Canaanite" was also used to refer to merchants or traders (Job.41.6; Proverbs 31:24), possibly due to their reputation for trading.
After the Exodus, the Israelites conquered parts of Canaan under Joshua's leadership, but they failed to completely drive out the Canaanites (Judges 1:27-36). This led to ongoing conflicts and religious influences throughout Israel's history. The prophets often rebuked Israel for adopting Canaanite practices and worshipping their gods (Ezk.16.3).
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.
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.
146 verses across 19 of 66 books; 47 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (48), Exodus (11), Leviticus (3), Numbers (17), Deuteronomy (5), Joshua (22), Judges (21), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2), Psalms (3), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (2), Obadiah (1), Zephaniah (1), Matthew (1) and Acts (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 146, across 19 books. The name is written 152 times in them.
Genesis48 verses
10:1810:1911:3112:512:613:713:1215:2116:317:823:223:1924:324:3728:128:628:831:1833:1834:3035:636:236:536:637:138:242:542:742:1342:2942:3244:845:1745:2546:646:1246:3147:147:447:1347:1447:1548:348:749:3050:550:1150:13
Exodus11 verses
Leviticus3 verses
Numbers17 verses
13:213:1713:2914:2514:4314:4521:121:326:1932:3032:3233:4033:5134:234:2935:1035:14
Deuteronomy5 verses
Joshua22 verses
3:105:15:127:99:111:312:813:313:414:116:1017:1217:1317:1617:1821:222:922:1022:1122:3224:324:11
Judges21 verses
1:11:31:41:51:91:101:171:271:281:291:301:321:333:13:33:54:24:234:245:1921:12
2 Samuel1 verse
1 Kings1 verse
1 Chronicles2 verses
Ezra1 verse
Nehemiah2 verses
Psalms3 verses
Isaiah2 verses
Ezekiel2 verses
Obadiah1 verse
Zephaniah1 verse
Matthew1 verse
Acts2 verses
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.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 12Canaan received Abram’s journey, his altar at Shechem, and the promise of land for his offspring.
- Genesis 13Canaan was where Abram lived after Lot departed.
- Genesis 16Canaan was where Abram had lived for ten years before Sarai gave Hagar to him.
- Genesis 17Canaan was promised to Abraham and his descendants as an eternal possession.
- Genesis 23Canaan was the land in which Sarah died and was buried.
- Genesis 24Canaan is the land where Abraham dwells and from whose daughters he will not take a wife for Isaac.
- Genesis 31Canaan was the land toward which Jacob drove his household and livestock to reach Isaac.
- Genesis 33Canaan was the land containing the city of Shechem.
27 more chapters, from Genesis 34 to Zephaniah 2
- Genesis 34Canaan was the land whose people Jacob feared would unite against him after the slaughter and looting of the city.
- Genesis 37Canaan was the land where Jacob lived with his household.
- Genesis 42Canaan suffered under the famine and was where the brothers returned to Jacob with their sacks and silver.
- Genesis 44Canaan is the land from which the brothers had previously brought back the silver found in their sacks.
- Genesis 45Canaan is where Joseph’s brothers return and where they tell Jacob that Joseph is alive.
- Genesis 47Canaan suffered a severe famine and gave up its remaining money in exchange for grain.
- Genesis 48Canaan is where Jacob says Rachel died on the return from Paddan.
- Genesis 50Canaan received Israel’s funeral procession and his burial in the cave at Machpelah.
- Exodus 3Canaan was named among the peoples’ destination, a good and spacious land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 16Israel ate manna until reaching the border of Canaan.
- Exodus 23Canaan is named among the lands whose inhabitants are driven out before Israel.
- Leviticus 18Canaan was named as the land into which the LORD was bringing Israel and whose customs Israel was forbidden to follow.
- Numbers 13Canaan is spied out by twelve leaders and reported as fruitful but strongly defended.
- Numbers 14Canaan was named among the people living in the valleys and hill country who attacked the Israelites.
- Numbers 34Canaan is the land whose inheritance is to be apportioned and whose borders are described.
- Numbers 35Canaan was to contain three of the six cities of refuge.
- Deuteronomy 32Canaan is the land given to the Israelites, visible to Moses from a distance but closed to his feet.
- Joshua 14Canaan was divided among the Israelites as their inheritance.
- Joshua 17Canaan’s inhabitants remain in the cities assigned to Manasseh and later work under forced labor.
- Judges 1Canaan was the land in which the Israelites fought, settled, and left many inhabitants in place.
- Judges 3Canaan held the nations left to test Israel, and Israel continued living among them.
- Judges 21Canaan was the land where the spared women were brought to the camp at Shiloh.
- Psalms 105Canaan was named as the portion of Israel’s inheritance.
- Psalms 135Canaan is named among the lands of kings struck down and given to Israel.
- Isaiah 19Canaan supplies the language spoken by five Egyptian cities.
- Ezekiel 16Canaan is named as the land of Jerusalem’s origin and birth.
- Zephaniah 2Canaan, the land of the Philistines, is told that destruction will leave no one there.
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