Hebrew word · H2182

זָנוֹחַ

zanoach

Zanoah

Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Zanoah = "cast off"

a city in the low country of Judah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Joshua · 2
  1. Joshua 15:34 וְזָנ֙וֹחַ֙ and Zanoah

    Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

  2. Joshua 15:56 וְזָנֽוֹחַ׃ and Zanoah

    Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

1 Chronicles · 1
  1. 1 Chronicles 4:18 זָנ֑וֹחַ Zanoah

    These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah. Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

    Here: A Judahite town. Again there were two: one in the lowland foothills (Josh 15:34; Neh 3:13) and one in the hill country (Josh 15:56). The hill-country one fits this cluster of towns.

Nehemiah · 2
  1. Nehemiah 3:13 זָנוֹחַ֒ Zanoah

    The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it, installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

    Here: A town of Judah, most likely the one in the low hill country west of Jerusalem (Josh 15:34; Neh 11:30), usually identified with Khirbet Zanu near Beth-shemesh, roughly 25 km away.

  2. Nehemiah 11:30 זָנֹ֤חַ Zanoah

    Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages; in Lachish and its fields; and in Azekah and its villages. So they settled from Beersheba all the way to the Valley of Hinnom.

    Here: A town in the Shephelah, the low hill country west of Judah's highlands (Joshua 15:34), probably Khirbet Zanu. Men of Zanoah repaired Jerusalem's Valley Gate in Nehemiah 3:13. Like the other names in this list it has no 'in' attached; the verb 'lived in' carries over from v. 25.

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