canaanitic









canaanitic


noun

  1. a member of a Semitic people that inhabited parts of ancient Palestine and were conquered by the Israelites and largely absorbed by them.
  2. a group of Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Phoenician, spoken chiefly in ancient Palestine and Syria.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Canaan, the Canaanites, or the Canaanite group of languages.

noun

  1. a group of ancient languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family and including Canaanite, Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Hebrew

adjective

  1. denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages

noun

  1. a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the land of Canaan before the Israelite conquest
  2. the extinct language of this people, belonging to the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family
  3. (in later books of the Old Testament) a merchant or trader (Job 40:30; Proverbs 31:24)
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