Aii'aimm (Heb. Anamim', t"1"^:", signif. un- known ; Sept. 'EvffttTtdfi v. r. AiVf^mti'/i, in Chron. 'Ava/xieift, Vulg. Anamim), the name of some Egyp- tian tribe, descended from Mizraim (Gen. x, 13; 1 Chron. i, 11). Some compare the city Anem (q. v.) in Palestine (Josh, xv, 34) as having possibly been settled by an Egyptian colony. Others (as Bochart, Phali //, i v, 30), on very precarious etymological grounds (Aral), anam, a shepherd; transposed, aman), refer the name to the nomadic custodians of the temple of Jupiter Amman (hut see Michaelis Suppl. 1932 sq.). Still others (as Calmet) regard the Anamim as the
1 manians or Garamantes in the oasis Phazania on the river Cinyphus (q. d. tn,?3". *&) in north-western Africa (Strabo, xvii, 835; Ptol. iv, 6; Plin. v, 4; Mel. i, 8), but with little probability (see Schulthess, Parad. p. 154). Gesenius (Tkes. Heb. p. 1052) calls especial attention to a geographical name, Benemis, found on the Egyptian monuments (Champollion, Cram. i. 150) as perhaps meaning these people (/>' be- ing the article); or else he thinks they may be the Blemyes, a people of Upper Egypt (Champollion, VEgypte sous les Pharaons, i, 2561. Among the old
> i io is, Saadias interprets Alirmidrim-s, the Chaldee paraphrasts (comp. Heck, (ul Targ. Chron. i, 9 sq.) inhabitant* o/MareotU C^a'Pla or ^X'JN— 3). (See generally Michaelis, Spicileg. i. 260 sq. : Xutcr, Comm.
i, 131.)— Winer, s. v.
Anam'melech (Heb. Anamme'lek, TyZ'Z".". Sept. Ai7///.':<V\. Vulg. Anamelech) is mentioned, together with Adrammelech, as a rod whom the people of Seph- arvaitn, who colonized Samaria, worshipped by the
sacrifice of children by fire (2 Kings xvii, 31). No satisfactory etymology of the name has been discov- ered. The latter part of the word is the Heb. for king, but as the former part is not found in that language (unless it be for the Arabic sanam, a statue, Gesenius, Tkes. Heb. p. 1052), the whole is probably foreign. Poland (De vet. ling. Persanim, § 9) renders it Tang of grief (from the Persic); but Hyde (Iltl. vet. Persar. p. 131) understands it as referring (from JO" i. q. *iy, sheep) to the Arabian constellation Cepheus, contain- ing the shepherd and the sheep. Benfey (Monatsnamcn einiger alter Vdlker, p. 188) proposes the name of the Persian goddess Ananit or that of the Ized Aniran, as containing the first part of the title Anammelech. So Rawlinson (Herodotus, i, 498), who understands the female power of the sun to be meant, derives it from the name of the Assyrian goddess A nunit. Other con- jectures are still more fanciful. The same obscuri- ty prevails as to the form under which the god was worshipped. The Babylonian Talmud states that his image had the figure of a horse ; but Kimchi says that of a pheasant or quail (Carpzov's Apparatus, p. 516). — Kitto, s. v. See Adrammelech.
A'nan (Heb. Anan, *5?, cloud; Sept. 'Evav v. r. 'Hvafi), one of the chief Israelites that sealed the sa- cred covenant on the return from Babvlon (Neh. x,
I 26), B.C. cir. 410.
In the apocryphal list of the "temple-servants," whose descendants returned from the captivity, the
j same name QAvclv) occurs (1 Esdr. v, 30) in place of
j the Hanan (q. v.) of the genuine text (Ezra ii, 46). Anauelus ('AvavqAof, i. q. llananeel), a descend-
J ant of one of the sacerdotal families still resident in Babylonia, appointed by Herod high-priest (B.C. 37) on
[ his own elevation to royalty (Josephus, Ant. xv, 3, 1), but removed to make room for the youth Aristobulus (ib. 2, 7), upon whose murder he was replaced (Jb. 3, 3), B.C. cir. 34.
Ana'ni (Heb. Anani', h23", protected, or perh. a shortened form of the name Ananiah; Sept. 'Avavi v. r. "Avar), the last named of the seven sons of
' Elioenai, a descendant of the royal line of David after the captivity (1 Chron. iii, 24), B.C. cir. 401.
Anani'ah (Heb. Ananyah' ', it"2", protected by Jehovah), the name of a man and of a place. See also Ananias.
! 1. (Sept. 'Avavia.) The father of Maaseiah and grandfather of Azariah, which lasr/repaircd part of the walls of Jerusalem after the exile (Neh. iii, 23). B.C. considerably ante 446.
2. (Sept. 'Avia.) A town in the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned between Nob and Hazor as inhabited after the captivity (Neh. xi, 32). Schwarz (Palest, p. 133) regards it as the modern Beit Hanina, three miles north of Jerusalem ; a small village, tolerably well built of stone, on a rocky ridge, with many olive-trees (Robinson, Res. iii, 68 ; comp. Tobler, Topog. von Jena, ii, 414).
Anani'as (Avaviac, the Greek form of the name Ananiah, q. v.), the name of several men, principally in the Apocrypha and Josephus. See also Hananiah, etc.
1. ('Aitic v. r. 'Avviag.) One of the persons (or place-) whose "sons," to the number of 101, are said to have returned with Zerubbabel from the captivity (1 Esdr. v. 16); but the genuine text (Ezra ii, 15, 16) has no such name.
2. One of the priests, "sons" of Emmer (i. e. Im- mer), who renounced his Gentile wife after the return from Babylon (1 Esdr. ix, 21); evidently the IIanani (q. v.) of the genuine text (Ezra x, 20).
3. An Israelite of the "sons" of Bebai, who did the same (1 Esdr. ix, 29) ; evidently the II ananiah (q. v.) of the true text (Ezra x, 28).