A location in the Jordan Valley, in the territory of Ephraim.
About Naarah
City on the eastern border of Ephraim’s tribe, just north of Jericho (Jos 16:7); alternately called Naaran in 1 Chronicles 7:28. Josephus locates it near Jericho and associates it with abundant water supply in Archelaus’s day (Antiquities 17.13.1). Some locate Naarah at modern Tell el-Gisr near ‘Ain Duq at the foot of the mountains northwest of Jericho. A synagogue dating to the fourth or fifth century AD has been excavated here; it contains a mosaic floor with a zodiac, an ark of the law, and other figures.
Key References
From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.
Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
All Scripture References (1)
Joshua (1)
From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.