John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:49

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Dannah, etc.] Dannah is not mentioned elsewhere, and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir; Kirjathsannah had three names, this and Debir, and Kirjathsepher; (see Gill on “<061515>Joshua 15:15”); all which are of much the same signification; for “Sanna” with the Arabs f359, and so with the Phoenicians, signifies law, doctrine, and manner of life; and with the Mahometans the secondary law to the Koran, and answers to the Jewish Misnah; and the Greek version interprets this name “the city of letters”. Jerom f360 calls it Daenna, and seems to confound it with Dannah.

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