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