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Strong's #549 - אֲמָנָה

Transliteration

ʼĂmânâh

Phonetics

am-aw-naw'

Origin

the same as (H548)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Location

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Amana = “support”

1) a river flowing into the plain of Damascus from Antilebanon

2) mountainous area of the river’s origin

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Song of Solomon 1

NAS (1)

Song of Solomon 1

HCS (2)

2 Kings 1

Song of Solomon 1

BSB (1)

Song of Solomon 1

WEB (0)

WEB (1)

Song of Solomon 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אֲמָנָה proper name, of a river

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

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אֲמָנָה f.

(1) a covenant [“prop. a confirmation, a surety”], Nehemiah 10:1 (Arab. أَماَنَةُ).

(2) something set, decreed, i.q. חֹק Nehemiah 11:23. To be understood of a daily portion of food furnished to the singers.

(3) [Amana, Abana], pr.n. of a perennial river, (compare Isaiah 33:16), rising in Antilibanus and watering Damascus, 2 Kings 5:12, from which that part of Lebanon was called by the same name, Song of Solomon 4:8 [“most interpreters understand the river to be the Chrysorrhoas, now el-Bûrada”].

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List of Word Forms

אֲמָנָ֗ה אמנה ’ă·mā·nāh ’ămānāh amaNah