Zanoah
Zanoah, a town in the Judean lowlands allotted to Judah, whose inhabitants helped rebuild the Valley Gate during Nehemiah's time.
The name Zanoah means “forgetfulness; desertion”
PlaceOld Testament3 books4 verses
Summary
Location
- Identified as
- Khirbet Zanu
- Certainty
- Likely (73% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 31.719° N, 35.001° E
Glossary entries
Connections
- Founded by
Alternative names
- זָנוֹחַZanoah
Mentions
- Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.