Bible Location
Meaning: of reeds · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Kanah is the boundary stream separating Ephraim from Manasseh. It is important because moving water served as a practical and memorable landmark in the tribal map. First appears in Josh 16:8.1
AI summary: Kanah matters because boundaries were not abstract lines but features people actually knew and crossed. Joshua uses the stream to structure the relation between Ephraim and Manasseh. The cross references present Kanah as a reed-lined border watercourse in the central land.1
A stream forming the boundary between Ephraim and Manasseh, from the Mediterranean eastward to Tappuah (Josh. 16:8). It has been identified with the sedgy streams that constitute the Wady Talaik, which enters the sea between Joppa and Caesarea. Others identify it with the river’ Aujeh. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.