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Χανααναῖος

Chanaanaîos · G5478 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Canaanite

    (Derivative of Χανάαν ‘Canaan,’) Pertaining to Canaan

    Examples

    Matthew 15:22 And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely demon-possessed.”

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
כְּנַעַנִי Kᵉnaʻanîy · H3669 · Canaanite, merchant, trader
Χανααναῖος (Chanaanaîos, G5478) Χανααναῖος is the direct Greek rendering of כְּנַעַנִי (Kᵉnaʻanîy, H3669) כְּנַעַנִי, both denoting an inhabitant or native of Canaan, with the Greek form used in LXX and NT contexts to translate the Hebrew gentilic.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Canaanite93.612
Matthew 15:22 recounts that “a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David”.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Χαναάν Chanaán · G5477 · Chanaan, the early name of Palestine · 2×ΧανααναῖοςChanaanaîos · G5478
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Χαναναία, Χαναναῖον, Hebrew כֲּנַעֲנִי, Canaanite; the name of the ancient inhabitants of…
Χαναναία, Χαναναῖον, Hebrew כֲּנַעֲנִי, Canaanite; the name of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine before its conquest by the Israelites; in Christ's time equivalent to Phoenician (R. V. Canaanitish): Mt 15:22.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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