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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(stony). A
river
of
Damascus
, preferred by
Naaman
to the
Jordan
for healing purposes (
2 Kings 5:12
12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. (2 Kings 5:12)
). Believed to be identical with the present Barada, which rises in the Anti-Libanus range, twenty-
three
miles N. W. of Damascus, runs by several streams through the city, and thence across a plain into the “Meadow
Lakes
,” where it is comparatively lost.
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
One of the rivers of
Damascus
, which the proud
Naaman
declared were better than all the waters of
Israel
(
2 Kings 5:12
12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. (2 Kings 5:12)
); the other is
Pharpar
. These are probably the rivers now called Barada and Awaj; Barada being supposed to be Abana. This is the Chrysorrhoas of the ancients. Robinson says, “it rises in the high plain
south
of Zebdany on
Anti-
Lebanon
, and rushes in a south-easterly course down the mountain till it issues at Mezzeh from its chasm upon the plain. Here it turns eastward, and flowing along the
north
wall of the city takes its way across the plain to the two northern
lakes
. It is a deep, broad, rushing mountain stream; and although not less than nine or
ten
branches are taken from it, some of them quite large, for the supply of the city and the plain, yet it still flows on as a large stream, and enters the middle lake by two channels.” It is judged that this
river
furnishes water to 14
villages
, and 150,000 inhabitants. In the Arabic version Abana is translated Barda, which goes to confirm the conjecture that Barada is the Abana of
Scripture
.
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Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
71
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
’Abanah
Phonic:
ab-aw-naw’
Meaning:
perhaps feminine of
68
; stony; Abanah, a river near Damascus
KJV Usage:
Abana. Compare
549
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
constancy: a sure ordinance
Potts’
Bible Proper Names
:
Steadfastness; perennial; a stone; a building:―a river of Damascus [AMANA], 2 Kings 5:12. {Constantia}
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