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H0549H

אֲמָנָה

a.ma.nahN:N--L

Amana

Amana = "support" a river flowing into the plain of Damascus from Antilebanon Another name of a.va.nah (אֲבָנָה "Abana" H0071)

The KJV translates H0549 in the following manner:

Abana (2x), Amana (2x)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

אֲמָנָה proper name, of a river

1. a river (constant ? compare Isa 33:16) flowing down from Antilebanon into the plain of Damascus 2Kgs 5:12 (Qr; אֲבָנָה Kt), the Greek Chrysorrhoas, modern Arabic Nahr Barad'. 2. the region from which it flows ct 2Kgs 4:8.

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