Lexical Summary Kananitēs: Cananaean, Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles Original Word: ΚανανίτηςTransliteration: Kananitēs Phonetic Spelling: (kan-an-ee'-tace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: Cananaean, Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles Meaning: Cananaean -- Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles Strong's Concordance Canaanite. Of Chaldee origin (compare qanna'); zealous; Cananites, an epithet -- Canaanite (by mistake for a derivative from Chanaan). see GREEK Chanaan see HEBREW qanna' Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2581: ΚανανίτηςΚανανίτης, Κανανιτου, ὁ (from Chaldean קַנְאָן, Hebrew קָנָא), equivalent to ὁ ζηλωτής (according to the interpr. of Luke in |