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Anah

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a tender-hearted, pious, meek, and loving creature, granddaughter of Cain, and sister of Aholibaʹmah. Japhet loved her, but she had set her heart on the seraph Azaʹziel, who carried her off to some other planet when the flood came.—Byron: Heaven and Earth.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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