Biblical place
Where was Canaan?
The promised land in broad outline and one of the Bible’s central geographies of inheritance, struggle, and identity.
First appears in Genesis 10:19 · 16 books · 63 chapters
Overview
Canaan is the broad land of promise in the Old Testament, a geography of inheritance, conflict, settlement, and covenant memory.
Canaan is represented in the local geography layer as Canaan. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 10:19 and is mentioned across 16 books, with 101 verse references collected into the glossary index.
Key passages
Appears in
22 chapter s · 43 verse mentions
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