Naarah

Naarah appears as a boundary marker on the eastern frontier of Ephraim's tribal inheritance: "And the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah... And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan" (Joshua 16:6-7). The parallel reference at 1 Chronicles 7:28 spells the name "Naaran" — the same site in the eastern Ephraim foothills above the Jordan Valley just north of Jericho. The location is identified with Tell el-Jisr in the Wadi Nuweimeh near modern Jericho, where a remarkable Byzantine synagogue mosaic was excavated in the early twentieth century.