Abanah
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ABA´NAH (a-bāʹna). One of the rivers of Damascus (2 Kings 5:12; marg., Amanah; Gk. Chrysorrhoas, “golden river”). It is, no doubt, the present Barada, about fifteen miles NW of Damascus, and has its source in the Anti-Lebanon Mts. and flows through the city of Damascus; thence after fifty miles it is lost in the marshy lake Bahret el-Kibliyeh. It was one of the rivers that Naaman would have washed in rather than the Jordan River.
bibliography: D. Baly, The Geography of the Bible (1957), pp. 109ff.
Unger, M. F., Harrison, R. K., Vos, H. F., Barber, C. J., & Unger, M. F. (1988). The new Unger's Bible dictionary. Revision of: Unger's Bible dictionary. 3rd ed. c1966. (Rev. and updated ed.). Chicago: Moody Press.
