perennial.

The Hebrew margin of 2 Kings 5:12 gives this as another reading of Abana (q.v.), a stream near Damascus.

A mountain (Cant 4:8 ), probably the southern summit of Anti-Libanus, at the base of which are the sources of the Abana.

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.