STRONGS NUMBER H6048


Word Summary
Anammelek: an Assyr. god
Original Word: עֲנַמֶּלֶךְ
Transliteration: 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

עֲנַמֶּ֫לֶךְproper 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 עָנָןcloud = Biblical Hebrew (rare), verb denominative Pi`el עִנֵּן‎ as Biblical Hebrew; עֲנָנָא ᵑ7‎, Syriac clouds).