NOBAH nō’ bə (נֹ֣בַח). 1. A Manassite leader (Num 32:42) who conquered Kenath and its villages and called the place Nobah. Numbers 32:33 speaks of Moses’ apportionment of the territories of Sihon and Og to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh. Presumably Nobah was a Manassite, and Kenath-Nobah is in the specified territory.

2. Judges 8:11 refers to Nobah as on the caravan route E of Succoth in the neighborhood of Jogbehah. Karkor is mentioned (Judg 8:10) as lying farther to the E. There Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian, had their army. Gideon went eastward beyond Nobah and Jogbehah along the caravan route, defeated the army, and captured the two kings. The location of Karkor is unknown.

S. Cohen (The Interpreter’s Dictionary of The Bible, Vol. III, 6) points out that the old name of Nobah (Kenath) occurs at 1 Chronicles 2:23. He thinks the site is the modern “Qanawat in el-Hauran, northeast of es-Suweideh, a city of the Druses.” Cohen (op. cit. II, 929) equates Jogbehah with Khirbet el-Ajbeihat, seven m. NW of Amman. The site is known also as el-Jubeihat (The Macmillan Bible Atlas, index and p. 54). The general location of Nobah is known, but no exact site has been proposed.