Taanach (tâ'a-năk), sandy soil. A royal Canaanitish city in Issachar, but assigned to Manasseh, Joshua 12:21, Joshua 17:11, Judges 1:27, Judges 5:19, 1 Kings 4:12, also written "Tanach." Joshua 21:25, A. V. This city is perhaps the same as "Aner." 1 Chronicles 6:70. It is now called Taanuk, with ruins about four miles southeast or Megiddo, on the western side of the plain of Esdraelon.