Zaanan is a town named in Micah's wordplay-filled lament over Judah's cities. The prophet uses the similarity between the town's name and the verb "to come out" to make a grim pun: the inhabitants of Zaanan will not come out, trapped in their own judgment. Some scholars identify it with Zenan in the Shephelah lowlands of Judah. The Septuagint's rendering shows textual uncertainty, but the rhetorical force of Micah's oracle is clear regardless.