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Amana

Meaning: perennial.

The name of two biblical places.

  1. A mountain near Damascus (Song of Songs 4:8), possibly the southern summit of Anti-Libanus, at the base of which are the sources of the Abana.

  2. A river/stream near Damascus (another reading of the "Abana" (2 Kings 5:12).