Pronunciation of the English word canaan.
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1. | And Avram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and all the people who they had acquired in Haran, and they left to go to the land of Canaan, and they came into the land of Canaan. | |
2. | And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan: and that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria: experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Canaan: | |
3. | 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." | |
4. | Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot abode in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom. | |
5. | And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Canaan. | |
6. | And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town. | |
7. | And when he agreed to her request, she took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband to wife. | |
8. | An I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God. | |
9. | And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Canaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him. | |
10. | And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Canaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob. |