Janoah
Janoah
(Heb. Yano’ach, , rest; 2Ki 15:29; Sept. v.r. ; but in Joshua cvi, 6,7 with local, Yano’chah, , to Janoah; Sept. v. r. and , or even ; Vulg. Janzoe; A.V. Janohah), the name probably of two places.
1. A town on the N.E. border of Ephraim (see Keil and Delitzsch, Comment. on Joshua, etc., p. 177, Clarke’s ed.), and consequently in or near the Jordan valley (Jos 16:6-7). Euseb. and Jerome state that in their time it was still a village in the district of Acrabatine, twelve miles east of Neapolis, the ancient Sichem (Onomasticon s. v , Janon). About three and a half hours (12 miles) east by south of Nablus stands the little village of Yanon, situated in a vale which descends the eastern slope of the mountains of Ephraim to the Jordan. The village is’ now mostly in ruins, but it has a few houses inhabited, and its ancient remains are extensive and interesting. Entire houses and walls are still existing, but covered with immense heaps of earth and rubbish. The- dwellings of the present inhabitants are built upon and between the dwellings of the ancient Janohah (Van de Velde, Travels, 2, 303). Janohah being situated on the side of the mountain range, the border went down to Ataroth, which lay in the valley of the Jordan. About a mile up the vale of Janohahis a little fountain, and upon a hill above it the prostrate ruins of another ancient town which is now called Khirbet Yanun (ruined: Yaniun) (Robinson, B. R. 3:297):
2. A town of Northern Palestine, situated apparently between Abel-beth- Maachah and Kedesh, and within the boundaries of Naphtali. It was taken, with several other cities; on the first invasion of Palestine by TiglathPileser, king of Assyria (2Ki 15:29). It is mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome, but they strangely confound it with Janohah, a town of Ephraim (Onomasticon, s.v.; Janon), and in this they are followed by Reland: (Palestina, p. 826), Gesenius (Thesaurus, s.v.), Schwarz Palest. p. 147), and others. The modern village of Hunin, which stands on the brow of a mountain between Abel and Kedesh, and which contains the massive ruins of a large and strong castle, would answer to the situation, and the names have some slight radical affinity. For a description of Hunin, see Porter, Handbook for Syria and Palestine, p. 444. Kitto, s.v. A ruin called Yanuh, on a hill S.W. of Haddata (Robinson, Later Researches, p.58), seems’ by its name to have more correspondence to Jalnoah than Huinnin; but it lies in the center of Gentile Galilee, and Tiglath-Pileser’s march seems rather to have followed the hills along the Huleh plain, Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 324.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Janoah (2)
(1) OF EPHRAIM Of Khurbet Yanun, the modern representative of this place, the Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey (2:395) give only this notice: “Traces of ruins above a spring.”
(2) OF NAPHTALI. The Yauih, thought by some to represent this place, is a double village, nine and three quarter miles south-east from es-Zib (Ecdippa, or Achzib), which would fall on the border between Asher and Naphtali, and is thus described (from Guerin) in the Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey (1:193): “Cisterns cut in the rock, and many cut stones scattered over the soil, surrounding platforms or employed as building material, show that we are here on the site of a small ancient city, the name of which is faithfully preserved in its modern name.” Lieut. Conder, how ever, distinguishes this locality from the Janoah of 2Ki 15:29 (see the Memoirs as above, 1:96; but no description of the place is given), which he regards as the Januh lying four miles south of the Leontes (Nahr Kasimiyeh), and six and a quarter miles east of Tyre; but this would fall within the tribe of Asher.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Janoah
or Jano’hah, rest. (1.) A town on the north-eastern border of Ephraim, in the Jordan valley (Josh. 16:6, 7). Identified with the modern Yanun, 8 miles south-east of Nablus.
(2.) A town of Northern Palestine, within the boundaries of Naphtali. It was taken by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Janoah
A place in northern Galilee, the land of Naphtali, taken by Tiglath Pileser (2Ki 15:29).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Janoah
JANOAH.1. A town in the northern mountains of Naphtali, near Kedesh (2Ki 15:29). It is probably the modern Yanh. 2. A place on the border of Ephraim (Jos 16:6-7); situated where the present Ynn now stands, with the supposed tomb of Nun.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Janoah
ja-noa (, yanoah, resting-place):
(1) A place named on the eastern boundary of Ephraim (Jos 16:6 f; the King James Version Janohah). Eusebius, Onomasticon (s.v. Jano) places it in Akrabattine, 12 Roman miles East of Neapolis (Nablus). This points definitely to Khirbet Yanun. On a hill near by, the Moslems show the Makam of Neby Nun, the father of Joshua.
(2) A town in the uplands of Naphtali, mentioned as having been captured and depopulated by Tiglathpileser. It is named with Abel-beth-maacah and Kedesh (2Ki 15:29). It may be identical with Yanuh, a village about 6 miles East of Tyre.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Janoah
[Jano’ah]
City of Naphtali. It was taken by Tiglath-pileser. 2Ki 15:29. Identified with Yanuh, 33 16′ N, 35 18′ E.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Janoah
A city of Naphtali.
2Ki 15:29
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Janoah
Jano’ah. (rest). A place apparently in the north of Galilee, or the “land of Naphtali,” — one of those taken by Tiglath-pileser, in his first incursion into Palestine. 2Ki 15:29. No trace of it appears elsewhere.