Gen. 10: 15. Firstborn of Canaan, and name of a city (Gen. 10: 19 and elsewhere in O.T.). People from the district came to listen to the Lord (Mark 3: 8), and on one occasion he visited the neighborhood (Mark 7: 24; see also Matt. 11: 21-22; Matt. 15: 21; Luke 4: 26; Luke 6: 17; Luke 10: 13-14; Acts 12: 20; Acts 27: 3).