Abana

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Abana
     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 flowing through
     Damascus, and the other two on each side of the city, diffusing
     beauty and fertility where otherwise there would be barrenness.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Abana, made of stone; a building