Kanah
Kanah is a toponym used in two distinct geographical contexts in the Hebrew Bible.
Border river between tribes
Kanah, in the KJV the Brook Kanah, is a stream referred to in the Hebrew Bible forming the boundary between Ephraim and Manasseh, from the Mediterranean Sea eastward to Tappuah.It has been identified variously with:
- Wadi Qana, a wadi in the northern West Bank, crossing into Israel at Jaljulia, and flowing into the Yarkon River before this reaches the sea. It is generally seen as the biblical 'brook of Kanah'.
- The sedgy streams that constitute the Wady Talaik, which enters the sea between Joppa and Caesarea Maritima. The stream rises southwest of Shechem near modern Nablus, flows through Wady Ishkar and joining Yarkon/Aujeh River, soon reaching the sea north of Jaffa.
- The Yarkon or Auja/Aujeh River