Definition

a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)

Etymology

patrial from H3667 (כְּנַעַן);

Word family

• כְּנַעַן Kᵉnaʻan

How the KJV renders it

• Canaanite
• merchant
• trafficker

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.