Atlas Biblica

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    Amana

    אֲמָנָה

    Amana, a mountain range featured in a poetic description of the beloved's beauty.

    Where the story of Amana happens Where the gazetteer locates Amana, framed to them: Amana. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Amana
    Where the gazetteer locates Amana
    verses
    1
    first named
    Song of Songs 4:8
    last named
    Song of Songs 4:8
    feature
    mountain
    coordinates
    33.69°N · 36.03°E
    mountain33.69°N · 36.03°E

    Jebel Zabadani (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Amana in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Amana is mentioned in Sng.4.8 as part of a poetic description of the beloved's beauty. In the verse, the lover invites his beloved to come with him from Lebanon, from the top of Amana, Senir, and Hermon, where lions and leopards dwell. The context suggests that Amana is a mountain range, likely located in the region of Lebanon.

    Some scholars identify Amana with the Anti-Lebanon mountain range, which runs parallel to the Lebanon mountains on the eastern side of the Beqaa Valley. Others associate it with Mount Amanus, a range located in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. The exact identification remains uncertain.

    The mention of Amana in the Song of Solomon is part of a literary device that uses geographical references to emphasize the beauty and desirability of the beloved. By associating her with the grandeur and majesty of the mountains, the lover expresses his admiration and love for her.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Amana is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSSONG OF SONGS1 VERSE21 books and 671 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSSONG OF SONGS1 VERSE21 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Amana is named in 1 verse — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 65 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.

    1. Song of Songs1 verse

      4:8

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on