Original Word: Κανανίτης, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: Kananaios
Phonetic Spelling: (kan-an-ee'-tace)
Definition: Cananaean, Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles
Usage: a Canaanite.

2581 Kananítēs – properly, a Canaanite (a Canaanean); used of one of the twelve apostles because he was an adherent of the Zealots – "Simon the Canaanite (Mt 10: 4; Mk 3:18).

Word Origin
of Aramaic origin
Definition
Cananaean, Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles
NASB Translation
Zealot (2).

STRONGS NT 2581: Κανανίτης

Κανανίτης, Κανανιτου, ὁ (from Chaldean קַנְאָן, Hebrew קָנָא), equivalent to ὁ ζηλωτής (according to the interpr. of Luke in , Acts 1:13), which see, the Zealot, a surname of the apostle Simon R G (the latter with a small kappa κ') in Matthew 10:4 and Mark 3:18.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Canaanite.

Of Chaldee origin (compare qanna'); zealous; Cananites, an epithet -- Canaanite (by mistake for a derivative from Chanaan).

see GREEK Chanaan

see HEBREW qanna'

Forms and Transliterations

Καναναιον Καναναῖον Καναναιος Καναναῖος Kananaion Kananaîon Kananaios Kananaîos

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