CALNEH, CALNO.1. Calneh is associated in Gen_10:10 with Babylon, Erech, and Accad as the earliest cities of Shinar. The Talmudic assertion that Calneh means Nippur receives some support from the age and importance of Nippur, but it is not known that this was ever the name of that city. Kulunu, the early name of an important city near Babylon, may be meant. 2. Calneh, linked with Hamath and Gath in Amo_6:2, is probably the Kulnia (Kullani) associated with Arpad and Hadrach, Syrian cities, in the Assyrian tribute lists, Kullanhu now six miles from Arpad. 3. Calno, compared with Carchemish in Isa_10:9, is probably the same as No. 2.
C. H. W. Johns.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909