Abana

Stony (Heb. marg. “Amanah,” perennial), the chief river of Damascus (2 Kings 5:12). Its modern name is Barada, the Chrysorrhoas, or “golden stream,” of the Greeks. It rises in a cleft of the Anti-Lebanon range, about 23 miles north-west of Damascus, and after flowing southward for a little way parts into three smaller streams, the central one flowing through Damascus, and the other two on each side of the city, diffusing beauty and fertility where otherwise there would be barrenness.

Water/River Now Barada River

KJB,ESV = ‘Abana’

Recorded scripture occurrences (1)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: KI2 5:12

OET-RV KI2 5:12

12 Aren’t the Damesek (Damascus) rivers Avanah and Parpar better than any river in Yisrael? Can’t I bathe in them instead and get healed?” So he turned and he went off angrily.

OET-LV KI2 5:12

12 Not good are_Amana and_Parpar the _rivers _of Dammeseq from_all the _waters _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) not will _I _wash (is)_in_them and_I _will _be _clean and_he _turned and_he/it _went in_a _rage.

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