Text:EBD:Amana

Perennial.

(1.) The Hebrew margin of 2 Kings 5:12 gives this as another reading of Abana (q.v.), a river near Damascus.

(2.) A mountain (Cant. 4:8), probably the southern summit of Anti-Libanus, at the base of which are the sources of the Abana.

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