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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Cananaean (Political group in the New Testament)
Simon's byname in the lists of the Twelve, in Matthew 10:4 and Mark 3:18. Older translations render it Canaanite, but it has nothing to do with Canaan.
Simon's byname in the lists of the Twelve, in Matthew 10:4 and Mark 3:18. Older translations render it Canaanite, but it has nothing to do with Canaan.
“Canaanite,” more precisely rendered “Cananaean” in modern translations, is a byname for the apostle Simon, one of the Twelve, appearing in the disciple lists of Matthew 10:4 and Mark 3:18. Despite its appearance, the word does not mean a descendant of Canaan; it transliterates an Aramaic term for the Jewish nationalist movement known as the Zealots, matching Luke's designation of the same man as “Simon the Zealot” (Luke 6:15).
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- Matthew 10:4
- Mark 3:18
