And Dannah,.... Dannah is not mentioned elsewhere,
and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir; Kirjathsannah had three names, this and Debir, and Kirjathsepher; Joshua 15:15; all which are of much the same signification; for "Sanna" with the Arabs f, 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 g calls it Daenna, and seems to confound it with Dannah.
f "mos vivendi, lex", Golius, col. 1221. Castell. col. 2567. Vid. Bochart. Canaan, 50:2. c. 17. col. 771. g De loc. Heb. fol. 90. I.