Canaanite has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Canaanite was at that time in the land. | |
| 2. | And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Canaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite. | |
| 3. | And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Canaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey. | |
| 4. | And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month. | |
| 5. | And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee: Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord. | |
| 6. | The word "Palestine" was originally the Greek name for Eretz Yisrael (Southern Canaan). It was seemingly a portmanteau of the Canaanite term Peleshet (the coastal region of Southern Canaan) and the Greek word for wrestler, as in "he wrestled God." | |
| 7. | Hebrew and Phoenician are Canaanite languages. | |
| 8. | I love Canaanite languages. | |
| 9. | The Book of Matthew relates an incident when Jesus was needlessly cruel to a Canaanite woman in a manner that is completely at odds with the Torah's commandment to treat strangers as "one of your own." | |
| 10. | Hebrew and Phoenician belong to the Canaanite branch of the Northwest Semitic languages. |