כְּנַעֲנָהKᵉnaʻănâh
Kenaanah, the name of two Israelites
Pronunciation: ken-ah-an-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3668
Meanings
1. father of prophet Zedekiah (1 Kings 22:11; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:10)
2. a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 7:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 22:11 One of them, Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, made some iron horns and proclaimed, “This is what the Lord says: With these horns you will gore the Arameans to death!”
- 1 Kings 22:24 Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah walked up to Micaiah and slapped him across the face. “Since when did the Spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you?” he demanded.
- 1 Chronicles 7:10 The son of Jediael was Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
- 2 Chronicles 18:10 One of them, Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, made some iron horns and proclaimed, “This is what the Lord says: With these horns you will gore the Arameans to death!”
- 2 Chronicles 18:23 Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah walked up to Micaiah and slapped him across the face. “Since when did the Spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you?” he demanded.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).