Amana
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This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.
Amana - perennial. (1.) The Hebrew margin of 2 Kings 5:12 gives this as another reading of Abana (q.v.), a stream near Damascus.
(2.) A mountain (Cant. 4:8), probably the southern summit of Anti-Libanus, at the base of which are the sources of the Abana.
Amana was a company founded in 1934 in Amana, Iowa that makes household appliances. It is now part of Maytag Corporation. See [1] (http://www.amana.com/amana/jsp/homepage.do).