“And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Ḥet” (Genesis 10:15). “And the Yevusites, and the Emorites, and the Girgashites” (Genesis 10:16). “And the Hivites, and the Arkites, and the Sinites” (Genesis 10:17). “And the Arvadites, and the Tzemarites, and the Ḥamatites and then the families of the Canaanites dispersed” (Genesis 10:18).
“And Canaan begot Sidon… And the Hivites” – Ḥaldin; “and the Arkites” – Arka of Lebanon; “the Sinites” – Orthosia; “the Arvadites” – Aradus; “the Tzemarites” – Homs. Why does it call them Tzemarites? Yehuda bar Rabbi said: It is because they work with wool [tzemer]. The Ḥamatites – Epiphania.
“The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you approach Gerar, until Gaza as you approach Sodom and Gomorrah and Adma and Tzevoyim, until Lasha” (Genesis 10:19). “The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon…[until Lasha] ” – until Callirhoe.