Canaanite

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a name given to the apostle Simon (Mt 10:4; Mk 3:18). The word here does not, however, mean a descendant of Canaan, but is a translation, or rather almost a transliteration, of the Syriac word Kanenyeh (R.V. rendered "Cananaen"), which designates the Jewish sect of the Zealots. Hence he is called elsewhere (Lk 6:15) "Simon Zelotes;" i.e., Simon of the sect of the Zealots. (See SIMON.)


This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

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