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Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

JANOAH

1. City defining the eastern border of Ephraim’s territory, located southeast of Shechem and northeast of Shiloh (Jos 16:6-7). It has been identified with modern Khirbet Yanun.

Show passage in OET: JOS 16:6–7

OET-RV JOS 16:6

6 and out to the Mediterranean. From Mikmetat in the north, the border went eastward toward Ta’anat-Shiloh then further east to Yanoah.

OET-RV JOS 16:7

7 From Yanoah it went to Atarot and Na’arah, reached Yeriho (Jericho) then came out at the Yarden (Jordan).

OET-LV JOS 16:6

6 And_ the_border _it _goes _out to_the_sea (the)_Micmethath is_from_the_north and_ the_border _it _turns eastward_to Taanath Shiloh and_it _passes _by it from_the_east _of to_Yānōaḩ/(Janoah).

OET-LV JOS 16:7

7 And_it _goes _down from_Yānōaḩ ˊAţārōt and_to_Naˊₐrāh and_it _touches (on)_Yərīḩō and_it _goes _out the_Yardēn.

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2. Town (modern Yanuh) of Naphtali’s tribe captured by Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, during the reign of King Pekah of Israel in 732 BC (2 Kgs 15:29).

Show passage in OET: KI2 15:29

OET-RV KI2 15:29

29 During the reign of King Pekah over Yisrael, Ashur’s (Assyria) King Tiglat -Pileser came, and he captured the cities of Iyon, Avel -Beyt-Ma’akah, Yanoah, Kedesh, and Hatsor, and the regions of Gilead, Galil, and Naftali (Naphtali), and he exiled their people to Ashur.

OET-LV KI2 15:29

29 In_the _days _of Peqaḩ the _king _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) Tiglat pilʼeşer the _king _of ʼAshshūr he _came and_he/it _took DOM Ijon and_DOM Abel Bēyt Maacah and_DOM Yānōaḩ/(Janoah) and_DOM Qedesh and_DOM Ḩāʦōr and_DOM (the)_Gilˊād and_DOM (to)_the_Gālīl all _of the _land _of Naftālī and_he_took _them _into _exile to_ʼAshshūr.

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