Χαναναίαν (Chananaian)

Χαναναίαν is an Ancient Greek form of χαναναῖος, meaning “Canaanite”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.arg: … πὸ τῶν οἰκισάντων προσηγορεύθη. ὅπως Ἅβραμος ὁ πρόγονος ἡμῶν ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῆς Χαλδαίων γῆς κατέσχε τὴν τότε μὲν Χαναναίαν νῦν δὲ Ἰουδαίαν λεγομένην. ὅτι λιμοῦ τὴν Χαναναίαν καταλαβόντος εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπῆρε καὶ διατρίψας ἐν αὐτῇ τινα …

All forms of χαναναῖος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.