Amaranthine (d/.tapdprivog, unfading), occurs in the original of 1 Pet. v, 4 (Auth. Vers. " that fadeth not away ;" comp. dfidpavrog, 1 Pet. i, 4, Auth. Vers, id.), where the apostle seems to allude to the fading sprig, or crown of laurel awarded to him who came off victorious in the Grecian games (q. v.). Hence the word Amaranth, the name of a class of flowers, so called from their not speedily fading (see Milton, Par. Lost, iii, in med.). They have a rich color, but dry flowers. Prince's-feather and cock's-comb are exam- ples of the natural order of Amaranthacea;, all the vari- eties of which are innocuous. To such unwithering garlands the apostle compares the Christian's crown of glory, won by faith and self-denial (1 Cor. ix, 25). See Crown.
Amari'ah (Heb. Amaryah', I'P'iast, said [i. e. promised | by Jehovah, q. d. TheophrastuB ; also in the paragogic form Amarya'hu, W^rX, 1 Chron. xxiv, 23; 2 Chron. xix, 11; xxxi, 15), the name of several men.
1. (Sept. Afiapiac, 'Auapia.) A person mentioned in 1 Clin, n. vi. 7, 52, in the list of the descendants of Aaron by his eldest son Eleazar, as the son of Meraioth and the father of Ahitub, which last was (not the grandson and successor of Eli of the same name, but) the father of that Zadok in whose person Saul restored the high-priesthood to the line of Eleazar. The years daring which the younger line of [thamar enjoyed the pontificate in the persons of Eli, Ahitub, and Abime- lech (who was slain by King Saul at Nob) were doubt-
less more than sufficient to cover the time of this Amariab and his son Ahitub (q. v.), if they were con- temporary, and it has, therefore, been thought that the}' never were high-priests in fact, although their names are given to carry on the direct line of succes- sion to Zadok. But it is more probable that Amariah was the last of the high-priests of Eleazar's line prior to its transfer (for some unknown reason) to the house of Ithamar in the person of Eli (q. v.), and that the Ahitub whose son Zadok was the first to regain the lost succession was a more distant descendant in pri- vate life, the intermediate names in the genealogy being omitted. See High-priest. B.C. ante 1125. Josephus (Ant. viii, 1, 3) calls him Arophceus (Apo- (palog), and says he lived in private, the pontificate being at the time in the family of Ithamar.
2. (Sept. 'Apapia, 'Afiapiag.) A Levite, second son of Hebron and grandson of Kohath of the lineage of Moses (1 Chron. xxiii, 19 ; xxiv, 23). B.C. 1014.
3. A " chief-priest" active in the political reforma- tion instituted by Jehoshaphat (2 Chron. xix, 11) ; perhaps identical with the high-priest that appears to have intervened between Azariah and Johanan (1 Chron. vi, 9). See High-priest. B.C. 895. Jose- phus (Ant. ix, 1, 1) calls him "Amasias the priest" (Afiaaiag 6 itptvg) ; and says that he (as well as Zeb- adiah) was of the tribe of Judah, a statement probably due to the inaccuracy of the text (iKaripovc. " both," being evidently spurious or corrupt, see Hudson, in loc). In the "list of Josephus (Ant. x, 8, 6) his name does not appear.
4. (Sept. 'Apapiac, but Yapaptia v. r. 'S.apapia in Ezra.) A high-priest at a somewhat later date, the son of another Azariah (q. v.), and also father of a differ- ent Ahitub (1 Chron. vi, 11 ; Ezra vii, 3), or rather, perhaps, of Urijah (2 Kings xvi, 10). See High- priest. B.C. prob. ante 740. Josephus (Ant. x, 8, 6) appears to call him Jotham ('IwSafjiog), as also the Jewish chronicle Seder Olam.
5. (Sept. 'Afiapiag v. r. Mapiag.) One of the Le- vites appointed by Hezekiah to superintend the dis- tribution of the temple dues among the sacerdotal cities (2 Chron. xxxi, 15). B.C. 726.
6. (Sept. 'Awopio-c v. r. Apopeiac. and 'Aftapiag.) The son of Hizkiah and father of Gedaliah, which last was grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah (Zeph. i, 1). B.C. long ante 640.
7. (Sept. Hapapia.) The son of Shephatiah and father of Zechariah, which last was grandfather of Athaiah, the Judahite descendant of Pharez, resident at Jerusalem after the exile (Neh. xi, 4). B.C. long ante 536.
8. (Sept. 'Afiapia.) One of the priests who return- ed from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh. x, 3), B.C. 536, and afterward (in extreme age, if the same) seal- ed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh. xii, 2), B.C. cir. 410. He appears to have been identical with the chief-priest the father of Jehohanan (Neh. xii, 13).
9. (Sept. 'Afiapiag v. r. 'Apaptia.) One of the Is- raelite "sons" of Bani, who divorced the Gentile wife whom he had married after the return from Bab- ylon (Ezra x, 42). B.C. 459.
Arnari'as ('Afiapiag), the Graecized form (1 Esdr. viii, 2; 2 Esdr. i, 2) of the name Amariah (q. v.).
Ani'asa (Heb. Amasa', X;r*S?, burden), the name of two men.
1. (Sept. 'Afitood; but v. r. 'Afltaaat, and in 1 Chron. ii, 17, even 'Afitaaafi.) The son of Abigail, a sister of King David, by Jether or Ithra (q. v.), an Ishmaelite (1 Chron. ii, 17 ; 2 Sam. xvii, 25 ; 1 Kings ii, 5, 32); a foreign paternity that appears to have caused his neglect in comparison with the more hon- ored sons of David's other sister Zeruiah ; until on the occurrence of Absalom's rebellion, whose party he naturally joined, and of which he was made general, his good conduct probably of the battle, although de-