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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Abana:

stony (Heb. marg. "Amanah," perennial), the chief river of Damascus (2Ki 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.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Abana:

made of stone; a building

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Abana:

(perennial, stony) one of the "rivers of Damascus." (2 Kings 5:12). The Barada and the Awaj are now the chief streams of Damascus, and there can be little doubt that the former of these represents 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 fertility it is the chief source, till it loses itself in the lake or marsh Bahret‐el‐Kibliyeh.

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