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Meaning and etymology of the Hebrew name Anem
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Anem 
Anem is a Levitical city in Issachar which was given to the Levitical family of the Gershomites (1 Chronicles 6:73). BDB Theological Dictionary notes that from comparative texts it seems that this city may also have been known as  (En-gannim) (see Joshua 19:21 and 21:29).
The name Anem is possibly a plural of the common Hebrew word  (ayin), meaning spring of water, but is also the regular word for eye. HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament and BDB Theological Dictionary both state that the connection between meaning eye and meaning spring or fountain is uncertain, and perhaps that is true from an etymological sense. In practice it no real miracle that these two words (may have) evolved into the same form since both an eye and a fountain produce water.
HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament submits that by the word more than just the eye itself is implied. "Occasionally it represents the whole process of seeing [] of understanding and obedience. [] The eye is used to express knowledge, character, attitude, inclination, opinion, passion and response."
It seems that the role of eye in the Bible is to produce things, just like the fountain. After all, when the mind experiences pain, the eye will produce water, as Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 1:18, "in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain." Jesus even says, "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.'" (John 7:38).
The connections between eye and fountain are as obvious as they are subtle. Certain is that the meaning of the name Anem goes deeper than our simple translations can convey. NOBS Study Bible Name List reads Double Fountain. BDB Theological Dictionary reads Two Fountains.
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