Canaan was an ancient country in the Levant. In the Bible, it was the land promised to Abraham and his children by God. The Canaanite people lived in this area from about 2000 BCE until the time of the Bible. It covers part of the area that is now Israel, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
Canaan
Etymology
The exact interpretation of the name Canaan remains unclear. In Egyptian texts, the name Canaan is usually associated with negative titles: "robbers and Canaanites, rebellious inhabitants in Canaan".
The derivation from the later Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic languages using the root kn' allows the interpretations: "the bending, the bent, the bowed, the humiliated, the outcast, the subjugated" and "the withdrawn".