KANAH (7, a reed ;' XeXxavd, in Josh.
xvi. 8, is formed by connecting the two last letters of 911.1 [` river 1 to the proper name ; Alex. Kavd ; in Josh. xvii. 9, Kapavd ; Alex. Kapd ; in vallem arundineti), a river running into the Mediterranean, and forming part of the boundary line between the tribes of Ephraim a.nd Manasseh (Josh. xvi. 8 ; xvii. 9). It is not again mentioned in Scripture. Eusebius and Jerome merely notice it as Cana in the tribe of Ephraim,' and Cane in the tribe of Manasseh ' (Ononnzst., s. v.) There is a Wady Kanak which takes its rise in the plain of Mukhna, south of Nabulus, and runs south-west till it joins Nahr-el-Aujeh, and falls into the sea a.bout four miles north of Joppa. This Dr. Robinson would identify with the river Xanah (B. R. iii. 135); but it is evidently much too far south. The river Kanah was on the northern border of Ephraim ; Wady Kanah runs through the centre of that ter ritory. Schwartz and Van de Velde suppose that a streamlet called Kazab (Kisdb, reeds') is the Kanah of Scripture ; but though the name seems to favour the identity, the situation is too far south, running as it does through Wady Shair, in the parallel of Samaria (Van de Velde Memoir, p. 327, and see his map). The Nahr el-Akhdar, a small stream which rises in the mountains south of Megiddo, flows across the plain of Sharon, and falls into the Mediterranean about two miles south of the ruins of Cxsarea, would answer better to the position of Kanah. Its banks are low, marshy,
and covered with jungles of reeds,' from which it may have taken its ancient name ; and this ap pears to be the stream which Bohadin in his .Life of Saladin calls Nahr el-Kasab the river of reeds ;' p. 19r, ed. Schultens).
2. A town of Asher (Josh. xix. 28, Kavciv; Alex. Kavd ; Cana) on its northern border. Euse bins confounds it with Cana of Galilee; but it must have been much farther north, as it is mentioned in connection with Sidon (Ononzast., s. v. Catza). There can be no doubt that it is identical with the village of Kana, situated on the side of the moun tain range about three hours east by south of Tyre. It is a modern village, containing about 309 families, with no traces of ruins. About a mile north of it is a very ancient site, strewn with ruins, some of them of colossal proportions; and in the side of a ravine not far distant are some sing,ular figures of men, women, and children, cut on the side of a cliff (Thomson, The .Land and the Book, p. 200; HandhOOk for S. ant/P., pp. 395, 442 ; Robinson, B P., ii. 455 ; Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 327).