Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Canaanite

Canaanite , noun

1.
A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
2.
A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

Canaanite , noun

[From an Aramaic word signifying “zeal.”]

A zealot.
zeal. — Matt. x. 4
Simon the Canaanite.

This was the “Simon called Zelotes” (Luke vi. 15), i.e., Simon the zealot.