יָנוֹחַYânôwach

יָנוֺחַ: proper name [of a location]: in extreme north of Israel, site dubious (2 Kings 15:29)

Pronunciation: yaw-no'-akh or (with enclitic) Yanowchah yaw-no'-khaw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3239

Meanings

יָנ֫וֺחָה: proper name [of a location]: on border of Ephraim (Joshua 16:6; Joshua 16:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 16:6 then on to the Mediterranean Sea. From Micmethath on the north, the boundary curved eastward past Taanath-shiloh to the east of Janoah.
  • Joshua 16:7 From Janoah it turned southward to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and ended at the Jordan River.
  • 2 Kings 15:29 During Pekah’s reign, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria attacked Israel again, and he captured the towns of Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor. He also conquered the regions of Gilead, Galilee, and all of Naphtali, and he took the people to Assyria as captives.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).