קָנָהQânâh

Kanah, the name of a stream and of a place in Palestine

Pronunciation: kaw-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7071

Meanings

1. of wady between Ephraim and Manasseh (Joshua 16:8; Joshua 17:9)

2. in Asher (Joshua 19:28)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 16:8 From Tappuah the boundary extended westward, following the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.
  • Joshua 17:9 From the spring of Tappuah, the boundary of Manasseh followed the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. Several towns south of the ravine were inside Manasseh’s territory, but they actually belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.
  • Joshua 19:28 Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, and as far as Greater Sidon.

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).