(n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
(n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
(n.) A zealot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or, as is the way of the Bible and in particular the Priestly writer's text, it was simply having one of its expositional geopolitical history moments, to explain why the Canaanites (with Noah's curse on them) had to vacate their land so that the tribe of Israel could move in and settle there.
(2) The land and history of Palestine was a summation of millennia, with influences from Canaanites, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Ottoman Turks and British.
(3) It was perfectly fine – indeed strongly encouraged throughout the Pentateuch – to kill Canaanites, Midianites, Jebusites, Hivites etc, especially if they had the misfortune to live in the Promised Lebensraum.
(4) But there is no archaeological evidence for the bloodthirsty genocide of the Canaanites and the sacking of their cities, described with such relish in the book of Joshua, and even if David and Saul and Solomon all existed, they must have been mere tribal leaders and not the kings that appear in the Bible.
(5) They live in a sliver of land about 30 miles wide, trace their ancestry back to the Canaanites and swear allegiance to a totalitarian state, which serves as their protector.
Moabite
Definition:
(n.) One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) North Rhine-Westphalia locator Flats raided in Berlin and Dortmund In the early hours of Thursday morning police targeted flats in Berlin’s Kreuzberg, Moabit and Prenzlauer Berg districts and a Dortmund apartment where truck attack suspect, Anis Amri, is thought to have temporarily stayed.
(2) In 2015, a man who had abducted and murdered two boys in the capital was identified and caught thanks to footage from a private security camera which a bar owner in Berlin’s Moabit district had illegally pointed at the “public space” on the pavement outside.