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title: יָנוֹחָה — Janoah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָנוֹחָה (3239), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Janoah. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָנוֹחָה

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«יָנוֹחָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Janoah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3239 · **BDB:** יָנ֫וֹחָה

### Glosses

Janoah (2); to (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Janoah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3239/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3239/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. on border of Ephraim Jos 16:6, 7, identif. with Yânun SE. from Shechem RobBR iii. 297 cf. BuhlGeogr. 178; 𝔊 Ιανωχα, Ιανωκα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָנוֹחָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3239/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 16:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.7/)

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וְיָרַ֥ד מִיָּנ֖וֹחָה עֲטָר֣וֹת וְנַעֲרָ֑תָה וּפָגַע֙ בִּֽירִיח֔וֹ וְיָצָ֖א הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.down from Janoah Ataroth and to Naarah and it.touches (on) Jericho and it.goes.out the Jordan

*JPS 1917:* And it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

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[Joshua 16:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.6/)

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וְיָצָ֨א הַגְּב֜וּל הַיָּ֗מָּה הַֽמִּכְמְתָת֙ מִצָּפ֔וֹן וְנָסַ֧ב הַגְּב֛וּל מִזְרָ֖חָה תַּאֲנַ֣ת שִׁלֹ֑ה תַּאֲנַ֣ת שִׁלֹ֑ה וְעָבַ֣ר אוֹת֔וֹ מִמִּזְרַ֖ח יָנֽוֹחָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.out the border to the sea (the) Micmethath \[is\].from.\[the\] north and it.turns the border eastward Taanath Shiloh and it.passes.by it from.\[the\] east to Janoah

*JPS 1917:* And the border went out westward, Mich-methath being on the north; and the border turned about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

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