| Lexical Summary Chanaan: Canaan, earlier name of PalOriginal Word: Χαναάν Transliteration: Chanaan Phonetic Spelling: (khan-ah-an') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Canaan, earlier name of Pal Meaning: Canaan -- earlier name of Palestine Strong's ConcordanceChanaan. Of Hebrew origin (Kna'an); Chanaan (i.e. Kenaan), the early name of Palestine -- Chanaan. see HEBREW Kna'an Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 5477: Χανάαν Χανάαν, ἡ, Hebrew כְּנַעַן (literally, 'lowland'), Canaan, the land of Canaan, indeclinable proper name: in the narrower sense, of that part of Palestine lying west of the Jordan, Acts 7:11; in a wider sense, of all Palestine, Acts 13:19. | 



