The word 'Canaan' is correct and usable in written English.
One can use 'Canaan' to refer to the ancient region in the Middle East, known as the Promised Land in the Bible. Example: The Israelites made their way into Canaan after wandering in the desert for 40 years.
Defenders of African slavery, for example, found a biblical justification for it in Noah's curse on Canaan, the son of Ham, on the grounds that Ham is said to be the ancestor of several African peoples (even though Canaan himself is not).
The post-quake settlements to the north of the city are called Canaan and Jerusalem, Biblical names for the promised land.
The combination "Cz" is used neither in English nor Czech to represent the sound that in the latter language is written as a "C" topped with a diacritical symbol called a hácek.Ladd SetonNew Canaan, ConnecticutSIR – You incorrectly render the German word for Chechnya.
"Shall your brethren go to war and shall ye sit here," Moses admonished two of the twelve tribes of Israel, as the other ten prepared to fight for the land of Canaan.
Government planners and foreign aid donors once feared just the sort of anarchic construction Canaan and Jerusalem represent unzoned, unregulated, untitled and dangerous.
It is a daunting task.Michigan was once a Canaan, rich with jobs in the car industry.
The Yahwist, however, has one very definite theological (or theo-political) preoccupation: to establish Israel's divinely bestowed right to the land of Canaan.
Rain and dew were all-important in Canaan but of little significance in Egypt.
In Connecticut, Dwight began to write poetry, such as Greenfield Hill (1794)—a popular history of and tribute to the village and epics, including The Conquest of Canaan (1785)—a Biblical allegory of the taking of Connecticut from the British, which some critics regard as the first American epic poem.
