A Caanite royal city, Joshua 12:21 , in the territory of Issachar, but assigned to Manesseh, Joshua 17:11; 21:25 . There is still a small place called Taannuk on the south border of the plain of Esdraelon, four miles southeast of the site of Megiddo, which is usually named with Taanach, Judges 1:27; 5:19; 1 Kings 4:12 .