Brown Driver Briggs

 Nobah = "barking"
n pr m
1. a warrior of Manasseh who during the conquest of the territory on
the east of the Jordan possessed himself of the town of Kenath and
surrounding villages
n pr loc
2. a place in Gilead which comprised the towns of Kenath and its
surrounding villages captured by 1 above and renamed after himself;
area eventually regained its original identity