Lexical Summary Anammelek: an Assyr. god Original Word: עֲנַמֶּלֶךְTransliteration: Anammelek Phonetic Spelling: (an-am-meh'-lek) Part of Speech: Proper Name Short Definition: an Assyr. god Meaning: Anammelech -- an Assyrian god Strong's Concordance Anammelech Of foreign origin; Anammelek, an Assyrian deity -- Anammelech. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6048. Anammelek עֲנַמֶּ֫לֶךְ proper name, of a divinity of סְפַרְוַיִם (q. v.) 2 Kings 17:31, Ανημελεχ (omitted by ᵐ5L); = Assyrian Anu-malik according to SchrCOT on the passage, but dubious, see Kiton the passage and references; CheExpos. Times, June, 1898, 429 reads ענומלך, and insert also 19:37 (before אלהיו); compare also Hal cited below עֲנָת. I. ענן (√ of following, perhaps originally cover, as Sabean ענן = טֿלל (Hebrew צלל), DHMEpigr. Denkm. 26 f.; or < Arabic appear, present oneself, specifically intervene as an obstacle (Lane; compare LagBN 103), hence clouds, as intervening, and so obstructing; compare Late Hebrew עָנָן cloud = Biblical Hebrew (rare), verb denominative Pi`el עִנֵּן as Biblical Hebrew; עֲנָנָא ᵑ7, Syriac clouds). |
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