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canaanite
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun canaanite has 2 senses
- canaanite(n = noun.person) Array - a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites; Array is a kind of semite
- canaanite(n = noun.communication) Array - the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest; Array is a kind of canaanitic, canaanitic language
CIDE DICTIONARY
canaanite, n.
- A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. [1913 Webster]
- A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [1913 Webster]
canaanite, n. [From an Aramaic word signifying “zeal.”].
A zealot. Matt. x. 4. [1913 Webster]
" This was the “Simon called Zelotes” (Luke vi. 15 ), i.e. , Simon the zealot." Kitto.
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