Anagogical (avayw, to lead or bring up), in the older writers on interpretation, is one of the four senses of Scripture, viz. the literal, allegorical, anagogical, and tropical. The anagogical sense is when the sa- cred text is explained with regard to eternal life ; for example, the rest of the Sabbath, in the anagogical sense, signifies the repose of everlasting happiness.
A'nah (Hcb. Anah', i"l3S, speech or affliction; Sept. 'Avc'i), the name of one or two Horites.
1. The fourth mentioned of the sons of Seir, and head of an Idumaean tribe preceding the arrival of Esau (Gen. xxxvi, 20, 29; 1 Chron. i, 38), B.C. much ante 1964. It seems most natural to suppose him to he also the one referred to in Gen. xxxvi, 25, as other- wise his children are not at all enumerated, as are those of all his brothers (Hengstenberg, Genuineness of the Pentateuch, ii, 229), although from ver. 2 some have inferred that another person of the same name is there meant. See also Dishon; Aholibamah.
2. The second named of the two sons of Zibeon the Hivite, and father of Esau's wife Aholibamah (Gen. xxxvi, 18, 2-1). B.C. ante 1964. While feeding asses in the desert he discovered "warm springs" (aqua: calidae), as the original, t^H?, yemim' ', is rendered by Jerome, who states that the word had still this signi- fication in the runic language. Gesenius and most modern critics think this interpretation correct, sup- ported as it is by the fact that warm springs are still found in the region east of the Dead Sea. The Syriac lias simply " waters," which Dr. Lee seems to prefer. Most of the Greek translators retain the original as a proper name, 'Ia/ui'/t, probably not venturing to trans- late. The Samaritan text, followed by the Targums, has " Emiiiis," giants. Our version of ''mules'' is now generally abandoned, but is supported by the Arabic and Ycneto-Greck versions.— Kitto. See Mule.
In verse 2, 14, of the above chap. Anah is called the daughtt r of Zibeon, evidently by an error of transcrip- tion, as the Samaritan and Sept. have son; or (with "Winer, Hengstenberg, Tuch, Knobel, and many oth- ers) we may here understand it to mean granddaugh- ter, still referring to Aholibamah (Turner's Compan. to Gen. p. 331). See Zibeon. He had but one son, Dishon (ver. 25; 1 Chnm. i, in, 41). who appears to be named because of his affinity with Esau (q. v.) through bis sister's marriage. We may further con- clude, with Hengstenberg {Pent, ii, 280; Engl, transl. ii, 229), that the Anah mentioned among the sons of
Seir in v. 20 in connection with Zibeon is the same person as is here referred to, and is therefore the grandson of Seir. The intention of the genealogy plainly is not so much to give the lineal descent of the Seirites as to enumerate those descendants who, being heads of tribes, came into connection with the Edomites. It would thus appear that Anah, from whom Esau's wife sprang, was the head of a tribe in- dependent of his father, and ranking on an equality with that tribe. Several difficulties occur in regard to the race and name of Anah. By his descent from Seir he is a Horite (Gen. xxxvi, 20), while in v. 2 he is called a Hivite, and again in the narrative (Gen. xxvi, 24) he is called Beeri the Hittite. Hengstenberg's explanation of the first of these difficulties, by sup- posing that one of the descendants of Seir received the specific epithet Hori (i. e. Troglodyte, or dweller in a cave) as a definite proper name (Pent, ii, 228), is hard- ly adequate, for others of the same family are similar- ly named; it is more probable that the word Hivite O^Hil) is a mistake of transcribers for Horite fj^Hft), or rather that all the branches of the Hivites were, in course of time, more particularly called Horites, from their style of habitation in the caves of Mt. Seir. See Horite. As the name Beeri signifies fontanus, i. e. "man of the fountain" ("iX3), this has been thought to be his designation with reference to the above noticed "warm springs" of Callirrhoe discovered by him ; whereas in the genealogy proper he is fitly called by his original name Anah. — Smith. See Beeri.
Anaha'rath (Heb. Anacliaruth', ' — in:x, pass, Fiirst ; Sept. 'AvaxepeS-, Vulg. Anaharatlt), a town on or within the border of Issachar, mentioned between Shihon and Rabhith (Josh, xix, 19). Its site was ap- parently unknown in the time of Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s. v. 'AvtpS, Anerith). It was, perhaps, in the northern part of the tribe, possibly at Meskarah, where there are ruins (Van de Velde, Map).
Anai'all (Heb. Anayah' ', IT1^?., answered by Je- hovah ; Sept. 'Avaviag, 'Avaia), one of those who stood on the right hand of Ezra while he read the law to the people (Neh. viii, 4), and probably the same with one of the chief Israelites who joined in the sacred cove- nant (Neh. x, 22). B.C. cir. 410.
A'liak (Heb. Anal/, piS [in Josh. xxi. 11, Ann//, pT3"], long-necked, i. e. a giant ; Sept. 'Evaic), the son of Arba, who founded Kirjath-Arba (afterward He- bron), the progenitor of a race of giants called Anakim (Josh, xv, 13). B.C. ante 1658.
Anakah. See Ferret.