Places of the Bible
Taanach
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Taanach, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
- Deliverance by Barak And Deborah · 1277 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
What the spade found
Taanach is generally identified with Tel Ta’anach. It has been excavated, and at its largest covered 4.45 hectares.
Occupation shows in 1 dated phase: Roman.
The excavation is from the survey dataset From Villages to Empires (Zanoni and others, 2025), used under CC BY 4.0. The identification is the one modern scholarship settles on, compiled by OpenBible.info from over seventy works, also under CC BY 4.0. Identifying a mound with a biblical name is a scholarly judgement, and for some places it is still debated.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles south of Megiddo. Its king was conquered by Joshua (12:21). It was assigned to the Levites of the family of Kohath (17:11-18; 21:25). It is mentioned in the song of Deborah (Judg. 5:19). It is identified with the small modern village of Ta’annuk.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 7 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.