Bible Names

Canaan: meaning of the name

Canaan means “merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Canaan in Hebrew and Greek

כְּנַעַן H3667

Kᵉnaʻan (ken-ah'-an) — Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him

from H3665 (כָּנַע); humiliated;

Who named Canaan in the Bible

Places named Canaan

Canaan in Scripture

“Canaan” appears in 88 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 9:18

    And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

  • Genesis 9:22

    And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

  • Genesis 9:25

    And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

  • Genesis 9:26

    And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  • Genesis 9:27

    God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  • Genesis 10:6

    And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

  • Genesis 10:15

    And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

  • Genesis 11:31

    And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.