Joshua 19:13 mentions this location on Zebulun's border, though no ancient site has been confidently identified with the name. The Septuagint offers variant transliterations, suggesting even ancient translators found the name unusual or textually uncertain. Many border towns listed in Joshua's tribal allotments have vanished from historical record, their names preserved only in this biblical boundary list. Neah joined dozens of other small settlements marking where one tribe's inheritance ended and another's began, reference points for land claims that mattered intensely to ancient Israelites even if the sites now elude archaeological recovery.