Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Canaan’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Canaan’ occurs 96 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 9:18 And so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham himself is the father of Canaan.Genesis 9:18
Genesis 9:22 Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside.Genesis 9:22
Genesis 9:25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”Genesis 9:25
Genesis 9:26 And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.Genesis 9:26
Genesis 9:27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”Genesis 9:27
Genesis 10:6 And the Sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.Genesis 10:6
Genesis 10:15 Then Canaan conceived Sidon his firstborn, the Hittite,Genesis 10:15
Genesis 11:31 And so Terah took his son Abram, and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and he led them away from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. And they approached as far as Haran, and they dwelt there.Genesis 11:31
Genesis 12:5 And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it,Genesis 12:5
Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan. In truth, Lot stayed in the towns that were around the Jordan, and he lived in Sodom.Genesis 13:12
Genesis 16:3 she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.Genesis 16:3
Genesis 17:8 And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”Genesis 17:8
Genesis 23:2 And she died in the city of Arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.Genesis 23:2
Genesis 23:19 So then, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the double cave of the field that overlooked Mamre. This is Hebron in the land of Canaan.Genesis 23:19
Genesis 28:1 And so Isaac called for Jacob, and he blessed him, and he instructed him, saying: “Do not be willing to accept a mate from the family of Canaan.Genesis 28:1
Genesis 28:6 But Esau, seeing that his father had blessed Jacob and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to take a wife from there, and that, after the blessing, he had instructed him, saying: ‘You shall not accept a wife from the daughters of Canaan,’Genesis 28:6
Genesis 28:8 having evidence also that his father did not look with favor upon the daughters of Canaan,Genesis 28:8
Genesis 31:18 And he took all his substance and flocks, and whatever he had acquired in Mesopotamia, and he journeyed to his father Isaac, in the land of Canaan.Genesis 31:18
Genesis 33:18 And he crossed over to Salem, a city of the Shechemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria. And he lived near the town.Genesis 33:18
Genesis 35:6 And so, Jacob arrived at Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, also named Bethel: he and all the people with him.Genesis 35:6
Genesis 36:2 Esau took wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,Genesis 36:2
Genesis 36:5 Oholibamah conceived Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.Genesis 36:5
Genesis 36:6 Then Esau took his wives, and sons, and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and whatever he was able to obtain in the land of Canaan, and he went into another region, withdrawing from his brother Jacob.Genesis 36:6
Genesis 37:1 Now Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father sojourned.Genesis 37:1
Genesis 38:2 And he saw there the daughter of a man called Shua, of Canaan. And taking her as a wife, he entered to her.Genesis 38:2
Genesis 42:5 And they entered into the land of Egypt with the others who traveled to buy. For the famine was in the land of Canaan.Genesis 42:5
Genesis 42:7 and he had recognized them, he spoke harshly, as if to foreigners, questioning them: “Where did you come from?” And they responded, “From the land of Canaan, to buy necessary provisions.”Genesis 42:7
Genesis 42:13 But they said: “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father; the other is not living.”Genesis 42:13
Genesis 42:29 And they went to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, and they explained to him all the things that had befallen them, saying:Genesis 42:29
Genesis 42:32 We are twelve brothers conceived of one father. One is not living; the youngest is with our father in the land of Canaan.’Genesis 42:32
Genesis 44:8 The money, which we found at the top of our sacks, we carried back to you from the land of Canaan. So in what way does it follow that we would steal, from the house of your lord, gold or silver?Genesis 44:8
Genesis 45:17 And he told Joseph that he should command his brothers, saying: “ ‘Burden your beasts, and go into the land of Canaan,Genesis 45:17
Genesis 45:25 And they ascended out of Egypt, and they arrived in the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.Genesis 45:25
Genesis 46:6 along with all that he possessed in the land of Canaan. And he arrived in Egypt with all his offspring:Genesis 46:6
Genesis 46:12 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez and Zerah. Now Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And sons were born to Perez: Hezron and Hamul.Genesis 46:12
Genesis 46:31 And he said to his brothers and to all his father’s house: “I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him: ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.Genesis 46:31
Genesis 47:1 And so Joseph entered and reported to Pharaoh, saying: “My father and brothers, their sheep and herds, and everything that they possess, have arrived from the land of Canaan. And behold, they stand together in the land of Goshen.”Genesis 47:1
Genesis 47:4 We came to sojourn in your land, because there is no grass for the flocks of your servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Canaan. And we petition you that you may order us, your servants, to be in the land of Goshen.”Genesis 47:4
Genesis 47:13 For in the whole world there was a lack of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, most of all Egypt and Canaan,Genesis 47:13
Genesis 48:3 And when he had entered to him, he said: “Almighty God appeared to me at Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me.Genesis 48:3
Genesis 48:7 As for me, when I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the very journey, and it was springtime. And I entered Ephrath and buried her next to the way of Ephrath, which by another name is called Bethlehem.”Genesis 48:7
Genesis 49:30 opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought, along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial.Genesis 49:30
Genesis 50:5 For my father made me swear, saying: ‘See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.”Genesis 50:5
Genesis 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land of Canaan had seen this, they said, “This is a great Lamentation for the Egyptians.” And for this reason, the name of that place was called, “The Lamentation of Egypt.”Genesis 50:11
Genesis 50:13 And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial, opposite Mamre.Genesis 50:13
Number of the word / term Canaan in Genesis: 45
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 6:4 And I formed a covenant with them, in order to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourning, in which they were newcomers.Exodus 6:4
Exodus 15:15 Then the leaders of Edom were stirred up, and trembling took hold of the robust of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan were petrified.Exodus 15:15
Exodus 16:35 Now the sons of Israel ate manna for forty years, until they arrived in a habitable land. With this food they were nourished, even until they touched the borders of the land of Canaan.Exodus 16:35
Number of the word / term Canaan in Exodus: 3
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 14:34 When you will have entered into the land of Canaan, which I will give to you as a possession, if there is the mark of leprosy in a building,Leviticus 14:34
Leviticus 18:3 You shall not act according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you have lived; nor shall you behave according to the habit of the region of Canaan, into which I will lead you; neither shall you walk in their ordinances.Leviticus 18:3
Leviticus 25:38 I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I might give to you the land of Canaan, and so that I may be your God.Leviticus 25:38
Number of the word / term Canaan in Leviticus: 3
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 13:2 “Send men, who may examine the land of Canaan, which I will give to the sons of Israel, one from the rulers of each tribe.”Numbers 13:2
Numbers 13:17 And so, Moses sent them to examine the land of Canaan, and he said to them: “Ascend by the south side. And when you arrive at the mountains,Numbers 13:17
Numbers 26:19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan, who both died in the land of Canaan.Numbers 26:19
Numbers 32:30 But if they are not willing to cross with you, armed, into the land of Canaan, then let them receive places among you for their dwellings.”Numbers 32:30
Numbers 32:32 We will go forth, armed, before the Lord into the land of Canaan; and we acknowledge that we have already received our possession across the Jordan.”Numbers 32:32
Numbers 33:40 And king Arad the Canaanite, who lived toward the south, heard that the sons of Israel had arrived in the land of Canaan.Numbers 33:40
Numbers 33:51 “Instruct the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you will have crossed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Canaan,Numbers 33:51
Numbers 34:2 “Instruct the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land of Canaan, and it has fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bound by these limits:Numbers 34:2
Numbers 34:29 These are the ones that the Lord has ordered to divide the land of Canaan to the sons of Israel.Numbers 34:29
Numbers 35:10 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,Numbers 35:10
Numbers 35:14 three shall be across the Jordan, and three in the land of Canaan,Numbers 35:14
Number of the word / term Canaan in Numbers: 11
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 32:49 “Ascend this mountain, Abarim, (that is, of crossings) onto Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and look upon the land of Canaan, which I will deliver to the sons of Israel to obtain it. And you shall die upon the mountain.Deuteronomy 32:49
Number of the word / term Canaan in Deuteronomy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 5:1 Therefore, after all the kings of the Amorites, who were living across the Jordan toward the western region, and all the kings of Canaan, who possessed the places beside the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel, until they crossed over it, their heart was broken, and there remained in them no spirit, out of fear at the entrance of the sons of Israel.Joshua 5:1
Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased after they ate from the grain of the land. And the sons of Israel no longer made use of that food. Instead, they ate from the grain of the present year, from the land of Canaan.Joshua 5:12
Joshua 13:3 from the muddy river, which irrigates Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron toward the north, the land of Canaan, which is divided among the rulers of Philistia: the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gathites, and the Ekronites;Joshua 13:3
Joshua 13:4 truly, to the south are the Hivites, all the land of Canaan, and Mearah of the Sidonians, as far as Aphek and the borders of the AmoriteJoshua 13:4
Joshua 14:1 This is what the sons of Israel possessed in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the leaders of the families, by the tribes of Israel, gave to them,Joshua 14:1
Joshua 21:2 And they spoke to them at Shiloh, in the land of Canaan, and they said, “The Lord instructed, by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given to us as habitations, with their suburbs to nourish our cattle.”Joshua 21:2
Joshua 22:9 And the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the one half tribe of Manasseh returned, and they went away from the sons of Israel at Shiloh, which is situated in Canaan, so that they might enter into Gilead, the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the order of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.Joshua 22:9
Joshua 22:10 And when they had arrived at the hills of the Jordan in the land of Canaan, they built an altar of immense magnitude beside the Jordan.Joshua 22:10
Joshua 22:11 And when the sons of Israel had heard of it, and certain messengers had reported to them that the sons of Reuben, and of Gad, and of the one half tribe of Manasseh had built an altar in the land of Canaan, upon the hills of the Jordan, facing the sons of Israel,Joshua 22:11
Joshua 22:32 And he returned with the leaders, from the sons of Reuben and of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, into the parts of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And he reported to them.Joshua 22:32
Joshua 24:3 Then I brought your father Abraham from the parts of Mesopotamia, and I led him into the land of Canaan. And I multiplied his offspring,Joshua 24:3
Number of the word / term Canaan in Joshua: 11
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Judges
Judges 4:2 And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Jabin, the king of Canaan, who reigned at Hazor. And he had a commander of his army named Sisera, but this man lived at Harosheth of the Gentiles.Judges 4:2
Judges 4:23 Thus did God humble Jabin, the king of Canaan, on that day, before the sons of Israel.Judges 4:23
Judges 4:24 And they increased every day. And with a strong hand they overpowered Jabin, the king of Canaan, until they wiped him out.Judges 4:24
Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach, beside the waters of Megiddo. And yet they took no spoils.Judges 5:19
Judges 10:12 and also the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Canaan, oppress you, and so you cried out to me, and I rescued you from their hand?Judges 10:12
Judges 21:12 And four hundred virgins, who had not known the bed of a man, were found from Jabesh-Gilead. And they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, in the land of Canaan.Judges 21:12
Number of the word / term Canaan in Judges: 6
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book 1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 1:8 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.1 Chronicles 1:8
1 Chronicles 1:13 Truly, Canaan conceived Sidon, his firstborn, as well as the Hittite,1 Chronicles 1:13
1 Chronicles 16:18 saying: ‘To you, I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.’1 Chronicles 16:18
Number of the word / term Canaan in 1 Chronicles: 3
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 105:11 saying: To you, I will give the land of Canaan, the allotment of your inheritance.Psalm 105:11
Psalm 106:38 And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters, which they sacrificed to the graven images of Canaan. And the land was infected with bloodshed,Psalm 106:38
Psalm 135:11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan.Psalm 135:11
Number of the word / term Canaan in Psalm: 3
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 19:18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan, and which swear by the Lord of hosts. One will be called the City of the Sun.Isaiah 19:18
Isaiah 23:11 He has extended his hand over the sea. He has stirred up kingdoms. The Lord has given an order against Canaan, so that he may crush its strong.Isaiah 23:11
Number of the word / term Canaan in Isaiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 16:3 And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your root and your lineage is from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Cethite.Ezekiel 16:3
Ezekiel 16:29 And you multiplied your fornications in the land of Canaan with the Chaldeans. And even then, you were not satisfied.Ezekiel 16:29
Ezekiel 17:4 He tore off the summit of its branches, and he transported it to the land of Canaan; he placed it in a city of merchants.Ezekiel 17:4
Number of the word / term Canaan in Ezekiel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Zephaniah
Zephaniah 1:11 Howl, inhabitants of the Pillar. All the people of Canaan have fallen silent. All were ruined who had been wrapped in silver.Zephaniah 1:11
Zephaniah 2:5 Woe to you who inhabit the coast of the sea, you people of perdition. The word of the Lord is over you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will disperse you, so that not one inhabitant will be left.Zephaniah 2:5
Number of the word / term Canaan in Zephaniah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 15:22 And behold, a woman of Canaan, going out from those parts, cried out, saying to him: “Take pity on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is badly afflicted by a demon.”Matthew 15:22
Number of the word / term Canaan in Matthew: 1
Bible passages with ‘Canaan’ in the book Acts
Acts 7:11 Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food.Acts 7:11
Acts 13:19 And by destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land among them by lot,Acts 13:19
Number of the word / term ‘Canaan’ in Acts: 2
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 96
