canaanite

Canaanite
    n 1: a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan
         before it was conquered by the Israelites
    2: the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied
       Canaan before the Israelite conquest
    

Canaanite \Ca"naan*ite\, n.
   1. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of
      Noah.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a
      member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the
      time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
      [1913 Webster]
    

Canaanite \Ca"naan*ite\, n. [From an Aramaic word signifying
   "zeal."]
   A zealot. "Simon the Canaanite." --Matt. x. 4.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: This was the "Simon called Zelotes" (--Luke vi. 15),
         i.e., Simon the zealot. --Kitto.
         [1913 Webster]
    

Canaanite
a name given to the apostle Simon (Matt. 10:4; Mark 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 (Luke
6:15) "Simon Zelotes;" i.e., Simon of the sect of the Zealots.
(See {SIMON}.)