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    Cheryl K on Acts 13 - 5 years ago
    The reason is because this name Canaan was transliterated. This means when you try to translate a word from one language, in this case Greek or Hebrew, to another language, that doesn't have a word for it.They sort of approximate what it would be if you changed the letters to what it would equal in English. So in Greek, this would be Chananaios or Chanaanean. So, they used Chanaan. Later on Canaan
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