Zanoah

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. A town in the low hall country ( Shephelah ) of Judah ( Joshua 15:34;  Nehemiah 11:30; repairers of the wall,  Nehemiah 3:13). Zanua in Jerome's Onomasticon as in the district of Eleutheropolis on the way to Jerusalem. In Van de Velde's map N. of the Wady Ismail , two miles E. of Zareah and four N. of Yarmuk . Jekuthiel father or founder of Zanoah, was son of Jehudijah the Jewess and Mered; Mered's other wife being Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter. (See Bithiah .) Israelites from Egypt probably colonized Zanoah.

2. Za Nutah is probably identical with another Zanoah; a town in the mountain region of Judah ( Joshua 15:56), enumerated with Maon, Carmel, and Ziph S. of Hebron.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zano'ah. (Marsh).

1. A town of Judah in the Shefelah or plain,  Joshua 15:34;  Nehemiah 3:13;  Nehemiah 11:30, possibly identical with Zanu'A .

2. A town of Judah in the highland district,  Joshua 15:66, not improbably identical with Sanute , about 10 miles south of Hebron.

3. In the genealogical lists of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles, Jekuthiel is said to have been the father of Zanoah.  1 Chronicles 4:18. As Zanoah is the name of a town of Judah, this mention of Bithiah probably points to some colonization of the place by Egyptians or by Israelites directly from Egypt.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A town in the hill country of Judah, some 10 miles to the south-west of Hebron ( Joshua 15:56 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., DD Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Zanoah'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/z/zanoah.html. 1897.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. City in Judah.  Joshua 15:34;  Nehemiah 3:13;  Nehemiah 11:30 . Identified with ruins at Zanua, 31 43' N, 35 E.

2. City in the highlands of Judah.   Joshua 15:56 . Identified with ruins at Zanuta, 31 22' N, 34 59' E.

3. Son of Jekuthiel.   1 Chronicles 4:18 . The Rabbis interpret "Jekuthiel was chief of Zanoach," referring to No. 2.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Zanoah ( Za-Nô'Ah ), Marsh, Bog. 1. A town in Judah, in the lowlands or "valley."  Joshua 15:34;  Nehemiah 3:13;  Nehemiah 11:30. East of Beth-shemesh, at Zânûá, 14 miles west-southwest of Jerusalem. 2. A town in the highlands of Judah.  Joshua 15:56. ZaʾNutah, 10 miles south-southwest of Hebron.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ZANOAH . 1 . A town in the Shephçlah (  Joshua 15:34 ,   Nehemiah 3:13;   Nehemiah 11:30 ,   1 Chronicles 4:18 ). It is the modern Zanu‘a , S.E. of Zoreah. 2 . A place in the mountains (  Joshua 15:63 ), possibly Zanûta S.W. of Hebron.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

The name of two towns in Judah,  Joshua 15:34,56 . The inhabitants of one of them aided in rebuilding Jerusalem,  Nehemiah 3:13;  11:30 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:34 2 Joshua 15:56

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Zano'ach, זָנוֹחִ [ Nehemiah 11:30, זָנֹחִ ], prob. Marsh ) , the name of two towns in the tribe of Judah.

1. (Sept. Ζανώ ) v.r. Τανώ , Vulg. Zano. ) A place in the lowland (Shephelah), named in connection with Zoreah and Jarmuth ( Joshua 15:34), in the group occupying the north-western corner of the district. (See Judah). The name recurs in its old connection in the lists of Nehemiah, both of the towns which were reinhabited by the people of Judah after the Captivity ( Nehemiah 11:30), and of those which assisted in repairing the wall of Jerusalem ( Joshua 3:13). Jerome says ( Onomnast. s.v. "Zanohua") that it was still called Zanua in his day, and lay in the region of Eleutheropolis on the way to Jerusalem. The name and position tolerably correspond to those of Zanu'A, a site which was pointed out to Dr. Robinson from Beit Nettif ( Bib. Res. 2, 16), and which in the maps of Van de Velde and of Tobler ( Dritte Wamderung ) is located on the north side of the Wady Ismail, two miles east of Zareah, and four miles north of Yarmuk. Rabbi Schwarz inaccurately calls it Zamea ( Palest. p. 102).

2. (Sept. [in Joshua, taking in the following name] Ζανωακείμ V.. Ζακαναείμ , Vulg. Zanoel; in Chronicles Ζαμών , Vulg. Zanoa. ) A town in the highland district, the mountain proper ( Joshua 15:56), named in the same group with Maon, Carmel, Ziph, and other places known to lie south of Hebron. It is (as Van de Velde suggests, Memoir, p. 354) not improbably identical with Sanute which is mentioned by Seetzen ( Reisen, 3, 29) as below Senula, and appears to be about ten miles south of Hebron. At the time of his visit it was the last inhabited place to the south. Robinson (Bibl. Res. 2, 204, note) gives the name differently, Za'nfutah; and it will be observed that, like Zanu'ah above mentioned, it contains the Ain, which the Hebrew name does not. The English engineers found (Quar. Report. of the "Pal. Explor. Fund," Jan. 1875, p. 15) an ancient site called Khirbet Sanut (written with an Elif= א ) , situated immediately west of Khirbet Yekin (the Cain of the context), which Tristram prefers as the representative of this Zanoah ( Bible Places, p. 62).

In the genealogical lists of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles, Jekuthiel is said to have been the father (i.e. founder or rebuilder) of Zanoah (4, 18); and, as far as the passage can be made out, some connection appears to be intended with "Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh." This mention of Bithiah probably points to some colonization of the place by Egyptians or by Israelites directly from Egypt. In Seetzen's account of Sanuite (Za'nfitah) there is a curious token of the influence which events in Egypt still exercised on the place (Reisen, 3, 29). Here it is also mentioned with Socho and Eshtemoa, both of which places are recognizable in the neighborhood of Za'nutah. The Jewish interpreters considered the, whole of this passage of 1 Chronicles 4 to refer to Moses, and interpret each of the names which- it contains as titles of him. "He was chief of Zanoach," says the Targum, "because for his sake God put away ( זָנִח ) the sins of Israel."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

za - nō´a ( זנוח , zānōaḥ  ; Codex Vaticanus Τανώ , Tanṓ  ; Codex Alexandrinus Ζανώ , Zanṓ ):

(1) A town in the Judean Shephelah, grouped with Eshtaol, Zorah and Ashnah ( Joshua 15:34 ). The Jews reoccupied the place after the exile ( Nehemiah 11:30 ). Here it is named between Jarmuth and Adullam. The inhabitants assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, repairing the valley gate ( Nehemiah 3:13 ). Eusebius (in Onomasticon ) places it at Zanna, in the district of Eleutheropolis on the Jerusalem road. It is represented by the modern Zanu'a, about 10 miles North of Belt Jibrin (Eleutheropolis).

(2) (Codex Vaticanus Ζακαναείμ , Zakanaeı́m  ; Codex Alexandrinus Ζανώ , Zanṓ ): A place in the mountains (  Joshua 15:56 ) of which Jekuthiel was the "father" or founder ( 1 Chronicles 4:18 ). It may be identified with Zenūtā , a ruined site on a hill about 12 miles South of Hebron.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Zano´ah (marsh, bog), one of the towns of Judah 'in the valley' (); which Jerome identifies with a village called in his time Zanua, on the borders of Eleutheropolis, on the road to Jerusalem. The name of Zanua is still connected with a site on the slope of a low hill not far east of Ain Shems (Beth-shemesh).