One of the peoples who previously resided in the land of Canaan, which God promised to Abraham.
Gen 15:18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—Gen 15:19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,Gen 15:20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,Gen 15:21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”