Canaan
Region in the Bible
Location: 31.69° N, 34.84° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Mentioned in 76 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Canaan is mentioned
1 Chronicles 16:18
‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
Read in contextActs 7:11
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
Read in contextActs 13:19
And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:49
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
Read in contextExodus 6:4
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
Read in contextExodus 15:15–16
15 Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
16 and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
Read in contextExodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Read in contextGenesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
Read in contextGenesis 12:5–6
5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Read in contextGenesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
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