Anonymous ID: 8d25ee Jan. 14, 2020, 9:38 p.m. No.7818469   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8510 >>8617 >>8649

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https://www.ancient.eu/canaan/

Canaan was the name of a large and prosperous ancient country (at times independent, at others a tributary to Egypt) located in the Levant region of present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. It was also known as Phoenicia. The origin of the name `Canaan’ for the land comes from various ancient texts (among them the Bible) and there is no scholarly consensus on precisely where the name originated nor what it meant. According to the Bible, the land was named after a man called Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Genesis 10).

 

Other theories cite Canaan’ as derived from the Hurrian language forpurple’ and, as the Greeks knew the Canaanites as Phoenicians’ (Greek forpurple’) and as the Phoenicians worked in purple dye and so were called by the Greeks `purple people’, this explanation is the most probable. The theory has also been advanced that the name comes from the Hebrew root-verb kana which denotes order from chaos, a blending, or synchronous existence.