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CANAANITES — (Heb. כְּנַעֲנִים; kenaʾanim), slightly derisory name given to a small group of Jewish poets and artists in Israel who began to act as a group in 1942, publishing pamphlets and booklets under the name The Committee for the Formation of the Hebrew … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Canaanites — The descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham. Migrating from their original home, they seem to have reached the Persian Gulf, and to have there sojourned for some time. They thence spread to the west, across the mountain chain of Lebanon to the… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Canaanites — In ancient times, a general name given to the peoples who dwelled in the region of Palestine and spoke Semitic languages. The term Canaan sometimes denoted Phoenicia, home of the famous trading people, and some passages of the Hebrew Old… … Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary
Canaanites (movement) — The Canaanites is a political and aesthetic movement which reached its peak in the 1940s among the Jewish residents in Palestine and has significantly impacted the course of Israeli art, literature, and spiritual and political thought. The… … Wikipedia
Canaanites — Phénicie Localisation des principaux sites du Levant de la première moitié du Ier millénaire avant J. C. Le territoire de la Phénicie correspond au Liban actuel auquel il faudrait ajouter certaines portions de la Syrie, d … Wikipédia en Français
Canaanites — see Phoenicians, Sethos I, Solomon. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Rosalie and Antony E. David … Ancient Egypt
CANAANITES — a civilised race with towns for defence; dependent on agriculture; worshippers of the fertilising powers of nature; and the original inhabitants of Palestine, from which they were never wholly rooted out … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Canaanites — See Canaan … Dictionary of the Bible
canaanites — n. member of a Semitic people which inhabited ancient Canaan; group of Semitic languages spoken in ancient Palestine and Syria … English contemporary dictionary
Cana, Canaanites — Cana, Canaanites † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Cana, Canaanites (Canaan, Canaanites). The Hebrew word Kenaan, denoting a person, occurs: ♦ in the Old Testament as the name of one of Ham s sons; ♦ in a lengthened form, Kenaanah … Catholic encyclopedia
