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Canaanite, the

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: C By: George A. Morrish

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Used to designate Simon Zelotes, one of the twelve apostles; this name Κανανίτης, Canaanite, is not the same as that of an inhabitant of Canaan, which in the LXX is Καναναῖος. That respecting Simon occurs in Matthew 10:4⁴Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. (Matthew 10:4) and Mark 3:18¹⁸And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite, (Mark 3:18); by the other two Evangelists he is styled “Zelotes,” and Κανανίτης (in some copies Καναναῖος) is held to be from the Aramaic qana, “to be zealous:” (Compare Num. 25:11, 13¹¹Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. (Numbers 25:11)
¹³And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. (Numbers 25:13)).

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