dan ya.an is a proper name in a travel itinerary, marking a place reached before the route turns toward Sidon.

The attested form is a proper name used in 2 Samuel 24:6 as a location in a route through named places.

1. Place name in a travel route · dominant

   In 2 Samuel 24:6, the form is tagged as a proper noun and occurs among locations visited on the route; the APB renders the itinerary, “then they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.”

   2 Samuel 24:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Samuel 24:6, the APB presents the name as “Dan-jaan” within a sequence of places.