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Taanach
People's Dictionary of the Bible
Taanach (tâ'a-năk), sandy soil. A royal Canaanitish city in Issachar, but assigned to Manasseh, Joshua 12:21; Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27; Judges 5:19; 1 Kings 4:12, also written "Tanach." Joshua 21:25, A. V. This city is perhaps the same as "Aner." 1 Chronicles 6:70. It is now called Taanuk, with ruins about four miles southeast or Megiddo, on the western side of the plain of Esdraelon.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Taanach'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​t/taanach.html. 1893.