Meaning of Canaanite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A subfamily of the Semitic languages, which were spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites and Phoenicians.
2. A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
3. A zealot or fanatic.
   broadly
4. A member of the Canaanism movement.

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Examples

“An affricated realization of *-z, as well as of voiceless *-s and emphatic *-ṣ-, is in any case reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, Northwest Semitic, and Canaanite, to which Phoenician belongs.”

“Among the ancient Canaanites it was considered a divine honor to perform the sexual act.”

“It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear.”

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