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אֲמָנָה

ʼĂmânâh · H549 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. Amanah

    River; located in Syria

    Examples

    2 Kings 5:12 “Are Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, not better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

  2. Amanah

    Mountain; located in Lebanon

    Examples

    Song of Solomon 4:8 “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, You shall come with me from Lebanon. You shall come down from the summit of Amana, From the summit of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 4 entries
Associate002003002002
This entry carries no independent “Associate” sense of its own; both occurrences of this lexeme are the place name Amana, as in “You shall come down from the summit of Amana” (Song of Solomon 4:8). The domain is bundle-shared with the homographic noun for a covenant or binding agreement, אֲמָנָה (ʼămânâh, H548).
Laws002003003016
As with the covenant sense of the related form אֲמָנָה (ʼămânâh, H548), Amana's name carries the notion of a fixed, established boundary, here marking the river near Damascus (2 Kings 5:12).
Names of Waterbodies003001015
אֲמָנָה names Amana as a river near Damascus, one of the waters Naaman preferred to the Jordan (2 Kings 5:12, "Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus").
Names of Landforms003001008
The name also designates Amana as a mountain peak in the Lebanon range, mentioned in the Song of Solomon's poetic summons (Song of Solomon 4:8, "from the peak of Amana").
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H549. Amanah אֲמָנָה proper name, of a river 1 a river (constant ? compare Isa 33:16)…
H549. Amanah
אֲמָנָה proper name, of a river
1 a river (constant ? compare Isa 33:16) flowing down from Antilebanon into the plain of Damascus 2Ki 5:12 (Qr; אֲבָנָה Kt), the Greek Chrysorrhoas, modern Arabic Nahr Barad'. 2. the region from which it flows ct 2Ki 4:8.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

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