Nobah

Nobah appears in two distinct contexts. As an individual: "And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name" (Numbers 32:42) — a Manassite warrior who conquered and renamed the Transjordan city of Kenath. As a geographic landmark in Gideon's pursuit of the Midianite kings: "And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure" (Judges 8:11). The town lay in the Bashan or upper Gilead plateau east of the Jordan, watching the desert caravan routes through the eastern frontier. Most identifications place it at modern Qanawat in the Hauran.