How To Use Canaanite In A Sentence
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He marries the infamous Jezebel, and built a Temple to the Canaanite deity Baal, popularizing this form of idolatry among the Jewish people.
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War broke out between the four Sumerian kings and the five Canaanite kings, and in the ensuing conflict Lot, a Sodom resident and nephew of the patriarch Abraham, was abducted.
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The sound of pipes joined the beat of the drum, and the men began to sing a hearty Canaanite sea shanty as the ship moved through the surf and out to sea.
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For what have you done -- you, a mere Canaanite, hewer of wood and drawer of water to some grossly Philistine firm of city bankers -- to deserve this immunity from anxiety and distress; while I, with my superior culture, my ambition and talents, am condemned to that beastly squeaking wire-wove mattress upstairs, and a job-lot of furniture which some previous German waiter has ejected in disgust from his bedroom in the basement?
The Far Horizon
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As midrash, that is, as a form of exegesis of scriptural text, to Leviticus 18: 3, this passage thus invokes the authority of scripture for its discourse on female homoeroticism; it links marriage between two women to the practices of the Canaanites and Egyptians, which this verse and numerous others explicitly forbid, as well as to a number of other sexual/marital connections explicitly or implicitly forbidden in scripture
Your Moral Leader
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The extraction of the Jewish nation was mean: "Thy birth is of the land of Canaan (v. 3); thou hadst from the very first the spirit and disposition of a Canaanite.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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He supposes Cadmus to have been a fugitive Canaanite, who fled from the face of Joshua: and that he was called Cadmus from being a Cadmonite, which is a family mentioned by
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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But although there is evidence for a centralisation of the different Canaanite-style cults into the worship of Yahweh in the capital – Jerusalem – over this period the most which can be said was that a form of monolatry, a belief in one God for a particular people had emerged.
Zoroaster – forgotten prophet of the one God
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Simon, who in Matthew and Mark was called the Canaanite, is here called Simon Zelotes, perhaps for his great zeal in religion.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians; as the inhabitants of England were successively called Britons or
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
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The Canaanites suffered a series of setbacks in the late 2nd millennium bc with attacks from the sea peoples in the north while in the south they were displaced by the Israelites and the Philistines.
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Nergal and Ninurta destroy the Spaceport and the errant Canaanite cities.
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The carrying of burdens and the irksome work of excavating the quarries was assigned to the remnant of the Canaanites (1Ki 9: 20; 2Ch 8: 7-9) and war prisoners made by David -- amounting to 153,600.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The prophetic critique of primal Canaanite religion had the effect of desacralizing nature and divinizing morality.
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The case of the Gibeonites, who, after becoming servants, still occupied their cities, and remained in many respects, a distinct people for centuries; [C] and that of the 150,000 Canaanites, the _servants_ of
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Babylonian amora] writing in the name of R. Isaac [one of the earliest known Babylonian tannaim, middle of the second century] who wrote that it was permissible to beat a Canaanite slave woman in one’s possession in order to prevent her from transgressing.
Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition.
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It now seems likely that the Canaanites were autochthonous - that they grew from the soil of Canaan.
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Archeologists call the Canaanite city destroyed in 1550 BCE “Jericho City IV”.
Aron-Ra in the flesh - The Panda's Thumb
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For example, the Hittites are identified as a Canaanite tribe, whereas in fact they were centered in Anatolia pp.
The Great Experiment
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Does the subjugation of the Canaanites to the Semites justify slavery of any form?
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Isaiah is here drawing from Canaanite mythology: when Baal the Thunderer, whose throne was on Mount Zaphon, was swallowed up by the god of death, Mot, then the god of the morning star, Athtar the Awesome, attempted to ascend to his throne and take his place.
Why Christians Should Go Ahead and Be Pagan
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It appears personified as a being of chaos, often a giant serpent -- in Canaanite mythology, the sea is Prince Yam, the enemy of Baal.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The strong message about the separation of Israelites from Canaanites in the patriarchal narratives also fit the attitudes of the people of postexilic Yehud.
The Bible Unearthed
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She herself was close to the so-called Canaanite movement and the artists associated with it.
Ethnic Dance in the Yishuv and Israel: 1900-2000.
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The Amalekites and Canaanites, who had been lying in ambuscade expecting their movement, rushed down upon them from the heights and became the instruments of punishing their guilty rebellion.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Esau's foolish marriage -- foolish, some think, in marrying two wives together, for which perhaps he is called a fornicator (Heb.xii. 16), or rather in marrying Canaanites, who were strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah, for which he is called profane; for hereby he intimated that he neither desired the blessing nor dreaded the curse of God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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This Decalogue, which is often called the ritual Decalogue, so it's listed on there in Exodus 34, bans intermarriage with Canaanites less they entice the Israelites into worship of their gods.
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Likewise Deut. 23: 17-18 must be pruned from the list, since it most likely refers to a heterosexual prostitute involved in Canaanite fertility rites that have infiltrated Jewish worship; the King James Version inaccurately labeled him a "sodomite.
Homosexuality And The Bible
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They will not be among the Egyptian idolaters in the future; they will be among the immoral Canaanites.
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He did not mourn his personal sin, of course, but that of his fellow repatriates - who had been freed from captivity only to inter-marry with idolatrous Canaanites.
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On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country, and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians, as the inhabitants of England were successively call Brittons and Englishmen.
Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
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They are clearly miniature “houses for the gods,” as witnessed both by their clear architectural form and by the fact that in all West Semitic languages Canaanite, Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, Hebrew, etc. the word ba¯yit/bêt is translated as both “house” and “temple.”
Archive 2008-02-01
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Likewise Deut. 23: 17-18 must be pruned from the list, since it most likely refers to a heterosexual prostitute involved in Canaanite fertility rites that have infiltrated Jewish worship; the King James Version inaccurately labeled him a "sodomite.
Homosexuality And The Bible
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Joshua's army, similarly, faced a Canaanite culture verminous in its wickedness and power to corrupt.
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This too prevented an oligarchy from developing in Israel as it had in ancient Canaanite society.
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Civilizations ranging from the Canaanite to the Ottoman, have left their mark on an ever-growing, culturally rich and sophisticated city.
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And he is called Canaanite, that is, Zealot, because the zeal of the Lord ate him up.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
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In the story of Rahab, the stock notion of Canaanite wickedness is ironized and radically relativized, if not demolished altogether.
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The prophetic critique of primal Canaanite religion had the effect of desacralizing nature and divinizing morality.
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Because she was a woman as well as a Canaanite, this desperate mother had two strikes against her.
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Canaanites in the Early Bronze Age lived both as wandering nomads in the countryside and as settled traders in walled cities.
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And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
Open Thread - Erick’s blog - RedState
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The sound of pipes joined the beat of the drum, and the men began to sing a hearty Canaanite sea shanty as the ship moved through the surf and out to sea.
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July 26th, 2009 at 1: 01 pm in fact j'lem was not built by the jews or hebrews … it was buit by the canaanites and was there whjen the 12 hebrew tribes invaded after being lost in the desert for 40 yrs … TimR you are full of yourself and BS
Conference of Presidents Parrots Avigdor Lieberman « Antiwar.com Blog
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Canaanite borrowed from Egypt words like _tebah_ "ark," _hin_ "a measure," and _ebyôn_ "poor," while Canaan in return copiously enriched the vocabulary of its conquerors.
Patriarchal Palestine
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The name of this deity was used in theophoric personal names in a number of Canaanite cities and continues in use in Israel today.
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For example, one of the Canaanite epithets of Asherah, elat, “goddess,” is etymologically identical to the Hebrew word for the terebinth tree (ela).
Asherah/Asherim: Bible.
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The earliest reliable historical records of the Jews date from around 1200 BC in unfortified villages in hill country far from Canaanite coastal cities.
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Canaanite: but [197] _John baptized in Ænon, near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized_.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
