Canaan ( Hebrew כְּנַעַן - “had mercy (God)”, Arabic. کنعان ) is one of the four sons of Ham and the father of Sidon , Heth , Jebusite , Amorrhea , Gergesei , Eveus , Arkei , Sinei , Arvadei , Tsemarei and Khimafey .
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The eponym of Canaan , the ancient name of Palestine . According to the Bible and its interpretations, Canaanites descended from Canaan and his descendants - the peoples who inhabited the ancient Levant and some adjacent areas of Syria , Anatolia and Zaordan .
“Five of them ( descendants of the sons of Canaan ): Eve, Jebusites, Amorites, Gergeses, and the Hittites lived ( south of Sidon ) in the country that the Israelites occupied afterwards; the remaining six: the Sidonians, Arkei, Sinei, Arvadei, the Tsemarites, and the Hamahites — lived to the north from Sidon to Eleuthera ” [2] .
The book of Genesis says:
 | and there were the limits of the Canaanites from Sidon to Gerar to Gaza, from here to Sodom, Gomorrah, Adme, and Tseboim to Lasha. ( Genesis 10:19 ) |  |
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Bible Sources
Canaan was the younger brother of Hush , Mizraim, and Foote ( Genesis 10: 6 ).
Genus of Canaan
Canaan had eleven sons ( Genesis 10: 13,14 ):
- Sidon : The Sidonians are Phoenicians who lived in and around Sidon.
- Hat : Hittites ( Hittites )
- Jebusites : Jebusites - one of the tribes of Southern Canaan
- Amorrei : Amorites
- Gergesey : Gergesey is one of the tribes of Southern Canaan
- Evey : Evey - a tribe that lived in the north-east of modern Lebanon and in the west of the modern Syrian province of Homs
- Arkay : Architects - Phoenician tribe living in the northwest of modern Lebanon
- Blue : blue - a tribe that lived in the Syrian province of Latakia
- Arvadey : Arvadei - Phoenician tribe that occupied the modern Syrian island of Arvad
- Tsemarei : Tsemarei - one of the Phoenician tribes
- Himafei : Khimafei - a tribe that lived in the Syrian province of Hama
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Descendants of Sidon
The Sidonians are a tribe that lived in southern Phenicia and founded the city of Sidon .
Josephus Flavius believed that the city of Sidon was founded by Sidon : "Sidon, who founded the city of the same name in Phenicia, now called the Greeks Sidon" [3]
Descendants of Heth
Descendants of Jebusy
The Jebusites were the pre-Jewish population of Judea , who at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. e. founded the city of Jerusalem [4] (formerly known as Salim or Jebus - Judgment 19:10 ) and originally inhabited it. According to the Bible, they lived in the mountains ( Nav. 11: 3 ) and came the descendants of Jebusus from the Canaanite family ( Genesis 10: 15-16 ).
Descendants of Amorrea
Descendants of Gergesei
The Hergesesians are known only by name, as they fought with the Jews west of the Jordan (Nav. 24:11). [five]
The Book of Joshua says:
| You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the inhabitants of Jericho, the Amorites, and Fezei, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Gergeses , and Evei, and Jebusites fought with you, but I delivered them into your hands. ( Nav. 24:11 ) |
Descendants of Eve
The Jews are mentioned in particular in the Book of Judges of Israel :
| ... Ebeys living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance to Hamath. ( Judges 3: 3 ) |
Baal Yermon is a mountain in the east of the Lebanese mountains , and Hamath is the modern Syrian city of Hama . Thus, the Ebeys lived in the north of the modern Lebanese province of Bekaa and in the west of the modern Syrian province of Homs .
Descendants of Arkay
According to Josephus Flavius, the Arkei (architects) lived in the Phoenician state city of Ark ( bibl .: Archa, lat .: Arca Caesarea / Arqa), which was located in the north of the modern Lebanese province of Northern Lebanon : “Arukey ( Arkay ) also (occupied) the Arch in Lebanon ” [3]
“Architects are a tribe of the descendants of Arkey, the son of Canaan ( Genesis 10:17 ; 1 Chronicles 1:15 ), who owned the city of Archa, sowing. Tripoli in Syria, which is mentioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III (XV century. BC. E.) As Arkant. In documents from the archive of Tell-Amarna, this city is called Irkita. The Assyrian king Tiglathpalasar III conquered it in 743 BC. e. According to Isa. 16: 2, the possessions of the architects were at the southern border of the inheritance of Ephraim, between Luz and Ataroth. The architect and friend and adviser of David was Husiy (Hushai) ( 2 Sam. 16:16 ; 1 Chronicles 27:33 ) ” [6]
Descendants of Sinea
"Blue, a descendant of Canaan ( Genesis 10:17 ; 1 Chronicles 1:15 ), is supposedly the eponymous ancestor of the inhabitants of the city of Sin in Northern Phenicia (Assyrian Siannu)." [6]
Probably, the ancient Phoenician city of Sin was located on the territory of the modern Syrian province of Latakia , where the small river Sinn currently flows, irrigating the area west of Jabal al Nusayriyah, about 32 kilometers southwest of the port of Latakia .
Descendants of Arvadeus
According to Josephus Flavius, the Arvadeis lived on the island of Arvad , which is located near the coast of modern Syria, 3.5 km from the modern city of Tartus : “ Aradiy ( Arvadey ) occupied the island of Arad ( Arvad )” [3]
Descendants of Tsemarei
Tsemarei - one of the tribes of Northern Phenicia , who lived in the southwest of the modern Syrian province of Latakia .
“... it is believed that the first ( Cemereans ) gave their name to Simri - the city of northern Phenicia, whose ruins are hitherto known as Sumra ( Zemer , Tsumur , Assyrian Simirra )” [5]
Descendants of Himafei
Himafei - a tribe that lived in the Syrian province of Hama .
Josephus Flavius wrote that “Amathius (Khimafei) lived in Amathus (bibl .: Hamath , modern: Hama ), which is now also called so natives, while the Macedonians named it after the name of one of their epigones Epiphanius” [3]
Notes
- ↑ 6 // Genesis
- ↑ Complete Orthodox Theological Encyclopedic Dictionary in two volumes. - St. Petersburg: Publisher P.P. Soykina, 1913. - T. 2. - P. 2266.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Josephus. Jewish Antiquities (translation by G. Genkel 1900) II, 10, 2.
- ↑ Knesset MP: Jerusalem founded by Jebusite Arabs
- ↑ 1 2 Explanatory Bible by A.P. Lopukhin 10, 16.
- ↑ 1 2 Rineker F. , Meyer G. Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia . - Christliche Verlagsbuchhandlung Paderborn, 1999 .-- 1226 p.
Sources
- Bible
- Josephus. Jewish antiquities. Book 1, Ch. 6
- Complete Orthodox Theological Encyclopedic Dictionary , two volumes, St. Petersburg, Publishing House P. P. Soykina, 1913.
- Explanatory Bible by A.P. Lopukhin
- Fritz Rineker, Gerhard Meyer. Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia. 1994