Chanaan is the place named in accounts of famine and the division of land among Israel.

The attested use names a land: Acts 7:11 places it within a famine affecting Egypt and Chanaan, while Acts 13:19 identifies it as the land whose nations were destroyed and whose land was allotted.

1. Name of a land in historical narrative · dominant

   In Acts 7:11, the accusative singular form occurs in the statement that famine came over Egypt and Chanaan; the APB renders the setting as “all Egypt and Canaan.” In Acts 13:19, the genitive singular form identifies the land in which seven nations were destroyed before its land was allotted; the APB renders “the land of Canaan.”

   Acts 7:11Acts 13:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as “Canaan” in both verses, once alongside Egypt in a famine setting and once in the phrase “the land of Canaan.” The verse is read as a whole.