mother; fear of them
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
AMAN.1. The persecutor of Achiacharus (Tob_14:10). 2. Est 12:6; 16:10, 17. See Haman.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A'man. See Haman. Est_10:7; Est_12:6; Est_13:3; Est_13:12; Est_14:17; Est_16:10; Est_16:17. (Apocrypha).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ā?man (Ἀμάν, Amán; Codex Vaticanus reads Ἀδάμ, Adám): Tobit 14:10; Additions to Esther 12:6; 16:10, 17, probably in each case for Haman, the arch-enemy of the Jews in the canonical Book of Esther (compare Est_3:1 with Additions to Esther 12:6). In Additions to Esther (16:10) Aman is represented as a Macedonian, in all other points corresponding to the Haman of the Book of Esther.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Aman
(Α᾿μάν), the Graecized' form (Tob_14:10; Esther 10:7, etc.) of the name HAMAN SEE HAMAN (q.v.).
Ama'na [many Am'ana] (Hebrew Amanahah', אֲמָנָה, a covenant, as in Neh_10:1), the name of a river and of a hill.
1. The marginal reading (of many codices, with the Syriac, the Targum, and the Complutensian ed. of the Sept.) in 2Ki_5:12, of the stream near Damascus called in the text ABANA SEE ABANA (q.v.).
2. (Sept. πίστις, Vulg. Amana.) A mountain mentioned in Son_4:8, in connection with Shenir and Hermon, as the resort of wild beasts. Some have supposed it to be Mount Amanus in Cilicia, to which the dominion of Solomon is alleged to have extended northward. But the context, with other circumstances, leaves little doubt that this Mount Amana was rather the southern part or summit of Anti-Libanus, and was so called perhaps from containing the sources of the river Amana or ABANA SEE ABANA (q.v.). The rabbins, indeed, call Mount Lebanon various names (Reland, Paloest. p. 320), among which appears that of Amanon (אֲמָנוֹן, Gittin, fol. 8, 1, v. r. וּמָנוּס, Umanus, or Matthew Hor, according to Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. col. 117).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.