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Χαναναίων (Chananaion)

Χαναναίων is an Ancient Greek form of χαναναῖος, meaning “Canaanite”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.185: … ετρακόσια γενησομένους κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον· ἐν οἷς κακοπαθήσαντας περιέσεσθαι τῶν ἐχθρῶν καὶ κρατήσαντας πολέμῳ Χαναναίων ἕξειν αὐτῶν τὴν γῆν καὶ τὰς πόλεις.

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.