Hebrew word · H3668

כְּנַעֲנָה

kena'anah

Chenaanah

Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.22.11;

father of: Zedekiah (H6667)

§ Chenaanah = "trader"

1) father of Zedekiah the false prophet of Ahab

2) son of Bilhan, grandson of Jediael, and great grandson of Benjamin and the founder of a house of Benjamin

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

1 Kings · 2

  1. 1 Kings 22:11 כְּנַעֲנָ֖ה Kenaanah

    Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

  2. 1 Kings 22:24 כְּנַעֲנָ֔ה Kenaanah

    Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

    Here: His father's name. It resembles 'Canaan', but nothing in the text makes a point of that, and any wordplay is speculative.

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:10 וּֽכְנַעֲנָה֙ and Kenaanah

    The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

2 Chronicles · 2

  1. 2 Chronicles 18:10 כְּנַעֲנָ֖ה Kenaanah

    Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

  2. 2 Chronicles 18:23 כְּנַעֲנָ֔ה Kenaanah

    Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

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