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'''Canaan or Yam (son of Noah)''' according to the '']'' in the ], He was the third son of prophet ] and his wife Naamah, and was the brother of ]. He was the only disbelieving son of noah, his mother naamah was also a disbeliever, his three brothers were all believers, he and his mother drown boath of them in the great flood with there people. | ||
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== His Geonology == | ||
| He is Canaan son of Noah son of Lamech son of Methuselah son of Enoch son of Jared son of Mahalalel son of Kenan son of Enos son of Seth son of Adam. | |||
| == His Word In The Quran == | |||
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| And it sailed with them through waves like mountains, and Noah called to his son who was apart , "O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers." he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." said, "There is no protector today from the decree of Allah, except for whom He gives mercy." And the waves came between them, and he was among the drowned. | |||
| According to the ] in Genesis 10 (verses 15-19), Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient ]: all the territory from ] or ] in the north to ] in the southwest and ] in the southeast. This territory is roughly the areas of modern-day ], ], ], western ], and western ]. Canaan's firstborn son was Sidon, who shares his name with the ]n city of Sidon in present-day Lebanon.<ref>María E. Aubet. "The Phoenicians and the West: politics, colonies and trade", ({{ISBN|0521795435}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-79543-2}}), 2001, p. 66</ref> His second son was ]. Canaan's descendants, according to the Hebrew Bible, include: | |||
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| According to traditional ]n histories, Canaan's son Arwadi (lit. "the Arvadite") and his wife Entela crossed from Asia into Ethiopia in 2101 BC, and the ] tribe were said to be descended from their son, ''Anayer''. There is further an Ethiopian tradition that two other Canaanite tribes, viz. the Sinites and Zemarites, also entered Ethiopia at the time it was ruled by the ], and became the ] and ]s, respectively.<ref>Yohannes Wolde Mariam, ''Yealem Tarik'', 1948 p. 105-6.</ref> | |||
| The Persian historian ] (c. 915) recounted a tradition that the wife of Canaan was named Arsal, a daughter of Batawil son of ], and that she bore him the "Blacks, Nubians, ], ], ], and all the peoples of the Sudan."<ref></ref> | |||
| The German historian ] (fl. c. 1525) recorded a legend that Canaan's sons ''the "Arkite"'' and ''the "Hamathite"'' first settled in the area of Greece, and gave their names to the regions of ] and ]. | |||
| ==Curse of Canaan== | |||
| {{main|Curse of Ham}} | |||
| According to {{bibleref|Genesis|9:20-27|KJV}}, Noah became drunk then cursed his grandson Canaan, for the transgression of Canaan's father, Ham. This is the ''Curse of Canaan'', to which the misnomer<ref>Alida C. Metcalf. ''Go-betweens and the colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600'', ({{ISBN|0292712766}}, {{ISBN|978-0-292-71276-8}}), 2005, p. 163-164</ref> "]" has been attached since ].<ref>Goldenberg. ''The Curse of Ham'', 2009, ({{ISBN|1400828546}}, {{ISBN|978-1-4008-2854-8}}), p. 157</ref> | |||
| <BLOCKQUOTE style="background:#ffd;padding:8px"><poem> | |||
| ''Ham's transgression:'' | |||
| And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Genesis 9:22) | |||
| '''Genesis 9:24-27''' | |||
| <sup>24</sup> And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. | |||
| <sup>25</sup> And he said, Cursed '''' Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. | |||
| <sup>26</sup> And he said, Blessed '''' the {{LORD}} God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. | |||
| <sup>27</sup> God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. | |||
| (—])</poem></blockquote> | |||
| Some modern scholars view the ''curse of Canaan'' in Genesis 9:20-27 as an early Hebrew rationalization for ]'s conquest of Canaan.<ref>Donald E. Gowan, ''Genesis 1-11: Eden to Babel'', Wm. B. Eerdmans, {{ISBN|0-8028-0337-7}}, p.110-15</ref> When Noah cursed Canaan in Genesis 9:25, he used the expression "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren."<sup>NKJV</sup> The expression "servant of servants", otherwise translated "slave of slaves",<sup>NIV</sup> emphasizes the extreme degree of servitude that Canaan will experience in relation to his "brothers".<ref>Ellens, J. Harold, & Rollins, Wayne G., eds. (2004). ''Psychology and the Bible: A New Way to Read the Scriptures.'' v.1–4. Westport: Praeger Publishers. {{ISBN|9780275983475}} p.54</ref> In the subsequent passage, "of Shem... may Canaan be his servant,"<sup></sup> the narrator is foreshadowing Israel's conquest of the promised land.<ref>Stephen R. Haynes. ''Noah's curse: the biblical justification of American slavery'', 2002, ({{ISBN|0195142799}}, {{ISBN|978-0-19-514279-2}}), p. 184</ref> Biblical scholar ] explains that the author of this narrative used Noah to curse Canaan, in order to provide justification for the later ]s driving out and enslaving the ].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Old Testament World second edition |author=Philip R. Davies |author2=John Rogerson |year=2005 |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |location=Louisville |isbn=0-664-23025-3 |pages= 121–122}}</ref> | |||
| ==Canaan in Jubilees== | |||
| <blockquote>And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt, that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (that is to) the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the border of the sea. And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim his brothers said unto him: 'Thou hast | |||
| settled in a land which is not thine, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if thou dost do so, thou and thy sons will fall in the land and (be) accursed through sedition; for by sedition ye have settled, and by sedition will thy children fall, and thou shalt be rooted out for ever. Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot. Cursed art thou, and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.' But he did not hearken unto them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of Egypt, he and his sons until this day. And for this reason that land is named Canaan.<br>—Jubilees 10:29-34.<ref></ref></blockquote> | |||
| == Etymology == | |||
| The English term ''Canaan'' (pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|eɪ|n|ən}} since c. AD 1500, due to the ]) comes from the ] {{Hebrew|כנען}} (''knʿn''), via ] {{lang|grc|Χαναάν}} ''Khanaan'' and ] ''{{lang|la|Canaan}}''. It appears as {{lang|akk-Latn|<sup>KUR</sup> ''ki-na-ah-na''}} in the ] (14th century BC), and ''{{lang|sem-Latn|knʿn}}'' is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium. It first occurs in Greek in the writings of ] as ''Khna''(Χνᾶ).<ref>David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, Aldo Corcella, ''A Commentary on Herodotus, Books 1-4,'' Oxford University Press, 2007 p.75.</ref> Scholars connect the name ''Canaan'' with ''{{lang|sem-Latn|knʿn}}'', ''Kana'an'', the general ] name for this region. | |||
| The etymology is uncertain. One explanation is that it has an original meaning of "lowlands", from a Semitic root ''{{lang|sem-Latn|knʿ}}'' "to be low, humble, depressed", in contrast with ], "highlands".<ref></ref> An alternative suggestion derives the term from ] ''Kinahhu'', purportedly referring to the colour purple, so that ''Canaan'' and ''Phoenicia'' would be synonyms ("Land of Purple"), but it is just as common to assume that ''Kinahhu'' was simply the Hurrian rendition of the Semitic ''{{lang|sem-Latn|knʿn}}''.<ref>], ''Hebrew Lexicon''</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Lemche|1991|pp=24–32}}</ref> | |||
| == References == | |||
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Revision as of 21:54, 31 May 2017
Canaan or Yam (son of Noah) according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, He was the third son of prophet Noah and his wife Naamah, and was the brother of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He was the only disbelieving son of noah, his mother naamah was also a disbeliever, his three brothers were all believers, he and his mother drown boath of them in the great flood with there people.
His Geonology
He is Canaan son of Noah son of Lamech son of Methuselah son of Enoch son of Jared son of Mahalalel son of Kenan son of Enos son of Seth son of Adam.
His Word In The Quran
And it sailed with them through waves like mountains, and Noah called to his son who was apart , "O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers." he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." said, "There is no protector today from the decree of Allah, except for whom He gives mercy." And the waves came between them, and he was among the drowned.
External links
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online Article (subscription/registration required)
| Descendants of Noah in Genesis 10 | |
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| Shem and Semitic | |
| Ham and Hamitic | |
| Japheth and Japhetic | |