Janoah or Janohah ( Yānōaḥ) is the name of one or more places mentioned in the Bible.Bible Gateway website, Joshua 16:7, "and gone down from Janohah to Ataroth"

Etymology Janohah means "he rests" in Hebrew.Knowing Jesus website, Names page

Places in the Bible The Book of Joshua (), places a Janohah on the northern border of the Tribe of Ephraim: "the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth". The site of Janohah is thought by some to be at Yanun or nearby Khirbet Yanun, but this is not certain. Online Archive of California, (California Digital Library) website Bible Hub website

A Janohah is also mentioned in the Second Book of Kings (): "came Tiglath-Pileser I king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria".Bible Truth Publishers websiteBible Atlas website

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