ANAN BEN DAVID

Volume I · p. 699 · 1948

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ANAN BEN DAVID: V. CARAITI.

ANANIA (Gr. Ἀνανίας), from Heb. Ἀνανίαθ (Jahweh hath used mercy). — Various characters in the Old and New Testaments.

1) Fictitious father of the angel Raphael (v.), who calls him “the great,” pretending