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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Canaanites .
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Examples
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This migration is termed the Canaanitic or Amorite: it flowed into Mesopotamia and across
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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Among these stand foremost all such as refer to the treatment of, and relations with, the Canaanitic families.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth Isaac Samuele Reggio
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Chaldea may have coincided with, or at all events was posterior to, that of the great Canaanitic family.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Although of different stock, the two families had long been thrown together in their former common home and spoke the same language; and this may partly explain the favour which the children of Israel found at the hands of an Egyptian ruler, himself of Canaanitic, or possibly of Semitic, origin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Nevertheless the great confederation of the Canaanitic cities (perhaps to be identified with the Hyksos), backed the Phoenician cities, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The opinion which seems most probably and best agrees with the tradition preserved by Manetho, identifies them with the large Canaanitic family once settled in Lower Chaldea, along the Persian Gulf and the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Canaanitic wave at least as early as Babylonia, and thanks to various causes -- to the absence of a prior local civilization as advanced as the
The Ancient East 1894
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This aspect of the myth is almost exclusively developed in the religions of most Canaanitic and Semitic nations of the East, where we shall meet with it often and often.
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