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Strong's #3239 - יָנוֹחַ

Transliteration

Yânôwach

Phonetics

yaw-no'-akh, yaw-no'-khaw

Origin

from (H3240)

Parts of Speech

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Janoah or Janohah = “He rests”

1) a place apparently in the north of Galilee in Naphtali, taken by Tiglath-pileser in his first incursion into Palestine

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (3)

Joshua 2

2 Kings 1

HCS (0)

HCS (3)

Joshua 2

2 Kings 1

BSB (3)

Joshua 2

2 Kings 1

ESV (3)

Joshua 2

2 Kings 1

WEB (3)

Joshua 2

2 Kings 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

יָנוֺחַ proper name, of a location in extreme north of Israel 2 Kings 15:29; site dubious, Yânû— (Conder^{Lists 38}) near Tyre is probably too far west; Guérin^{Gal. ii. 371f.} proposes Hunîn, west of upper Jordan, compare Buhl^{Geogr. 237}; ᵐ5 Ανιωχ, A ᵐ5^L Ιανωχ.

יָנ֫וֺחָה proper name, of a location on border of Ephraim Joshua 16:6,7, identification with Yânun southeast from Shechem Rob^{BR iii. 297} compare Buhl^{Geogr. 178}; ᵐ5 Ιανωχα, Ιανωκα.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יָנוֹחַ (“rest”), [Janoah], pr.n. of a town on the borders of Ephraim and Manasseh, 2 Kings 15:29. With ה local יָנוֹחָה Joshua 16:6, Joshua 16:7.

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List of Word Forms

יָ֠נוֹחַ יָנֽוֹחָה׃ ינוח ינוחה׃ מִיָּנ֖וֹחָה מינוחה mî·yā·nō·w·ḥāh miyaNochah mîyānōwḥāh yā·nō·w·aḥ yā·nō·w·ḥāh Yanoach yaNochah yānōwaḥ yānōwḥāh