Places of the Bible
Zanoah
A town in the low country or shephelah of Judah · City
What the spade found
Zanoah is generally identified with Hirbet Zanoah. It has been surveyed but not excavated.
Occupation shows in 8 dated phases: Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age IIa-b, Iron Age III (Persian), Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine.
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 town in the low country or shephelah of Judah, near Zorah (Josh. 15:34). It was re-occupied after the return from the Captivity (Neh. 11:30). Zanu’ah in Wady Ismail, 10 miles west of Jerusalem, occupies probably the same site.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 3 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.