Bible Dictionary

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 Pa…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Or Jano’hah, rest. ) 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. ) A town of Northern Palestine, within the boundaries of Naphtali. It was taken by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29).

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(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. (2 Kings 15:29) No trace of it appears elsewhere.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

JANO'AH (rest), a town of Naphtali, in northern Palestine, taken by the king of Assyria. 2 Kgs 15:29. Van de Velde and Porter propose to identify it with ruins at the village Hunis, between Abel-beth-Maachah and Kedesh; Conder with Yanuk, near the western limit of the ancient territory of Naphtali.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

Janohah, resting; tarrying; deriving