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It is attested in Phoenician on coins from Berytus dated to the 2nd century BCE. In Greek, it first occurs in the writings of Hecataeus as " Khna" ( Χνᾶ). It appears as Kinâḫna ( Akkadian: 𒆳𒆠𒈾𒄴𒈾, KURki-na-aḫ-na) in the Amarna letters (14th century BC) and several other ancient Egyptian texts. 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew כנען‎ ( knʿn), via the Koine Greek Χανααν Khanaan and the Latin Canaan.

The English term "Canaan" (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ n ən/ since c. 500 BC as Phoenicians, and after the emigration of some Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (as "Chanani") of North Africa during Late Antiquity. The name "Canaanites" is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c. In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature." : 13–14 Biblical scholar Mark Smith, citing archaeological findings, suggests "that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and derived from Canaanite culture. It is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible. The demonym "Canaanites" serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous populations-both settled and nomadic-pastoral groups-throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan. The name "Canaan" appears throughout the Bible as a geography associated with the " Promised Land". Much of present-day knowledge about Canaan stems from archaeological excavation in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, En Esur, and Gezer.

Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped. Canaan ( / ˈ k eɪ n ən/ Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan Biblical Greek: Χανααν – Khanaan Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.