Bible word study

Kenaaniy (Strong’s H3669): Meaning in the Bible

Kenaaniy (כְּנַעַנִי) is the Hebrew (proper name) word numbered H3669 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans). In the King James Bible it is translated Canaanite, merchant, trafficker..

• Original wordכְּנַעַנִי
• TransliterationKᵉnaʻanîy
• Pronunciationken-ah-an-ee'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3669
• LanguageHebrew (proper name)

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. patrial from H3667;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kenaaniy appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kenaaniy (H3669) stands behind 73 English renderings in 71 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Judges (16), Joshua (15), Genesis (11).

How the King James Bible renders Kenaaniy, by count

• canaanites55 of 73 (75 percent)
• canaanite12 of 73 (16 percent)
• canaan1 of 73 (1 percent)
• canaanitess1 of 73 (1 percent)
• canaanitish1 of 73 (1 percent)
• merchant1 of 73 (1 percent)

Three places to read Kenaaniy

• Genesis 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
• Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
• Judges 1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kenaaniy in the original Hebrew (proper name) lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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