Place
Amana
mountain peak in Lebanon
Mountain peak in the Anti-Lebanon range named in the Song of Solomon alongside Shenir and Hermon.
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A mountain peak associated with the Anti-Lebanon range, mentioned in the Song of (4:8) alongside Shenir and . The bridegroom calls the bride to "look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon," evoking remote, wild heights as an image of inaccessible beauty. Amana is generally identified with a summit of the Anti-Lebanon mountains and may be related to the Abana River mentioned in 2 Kings 5:12. The name appears nowhere else in the biblical narrative.
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Modern location: Jebel Zabadani. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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