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Abana or Barada River in Wikipedia

Barada is identified as Abana (or Amanah, classical Chrysorrhoas) which is the more important of the two rivers of Damascus, Syria and was mentioned in the Book of Kings (2 Kings 5:12). As the Barada rises in the Anti-Libanus, and escapes from the mountains through a narrow gorge, its waters spread out fan-like, in canals or rivers, the name of one...

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Barada River Photos in Wikimedia

Abana River is the modern Barada River in Damascus Syria. Wikimedia shows several photos of the modern river....

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Abanah River in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(perennial, stony), one of the "rivers of Damascus." 2Ki 5:12 The Barada and the Awaj are now the chief streams of Damascus, the former representing the Abana and the latter the Pharpar of the text. The Barada (Abana) rises in the Antilibanus, at about 23 miles from the city, after flowing through which it runs across the plain, of whose ferti...

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Abanah River in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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 fl...

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Abanah River in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The chief river of Damascus, the modern Barada, called by the Greeks "the golden stream," flowing through the heart of the city and supplying it with water. The Pharpar mentioned with it in 2 Kings 5:12 is further from Damascus, and answers to the Awaj. The Barada rises in the Antilibanus mountain range, 23 miles from the city, and has the lar...

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Abanah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

made of stone; a building...

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Abanah River Scripture - 2 Kings 5

[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....

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Abanah River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ab'-a-na, a-ba'-na ('abhanah (Kethibh, Septuagint, Vulgate)), or AMANA a-ma'-na ('amanah (Qere, Peshitta, Targum); the King James Version Abana (American Standard Revised Version, margin Amana), the Revised Version (British and American) ABANAH (Revised Version, margin Amanah)): Mentioned in 2 Ki 5:12, along with the PHARPAR (which see), as ...

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Abanah River in Naves Topical Bible

River of Damascus, 2Ki 5:12...

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