nahar

The perennial river is called nahar by the Hebrews.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Oxus; "by the Eastern writers Maver-ul-nere, or Mawer-al-nahar, which is said to have the same meaning; and it is now known by the name Bukharia.

Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

Five gifts did He take, one from each Dragon that remained, save for Yam-nahar, who slew his cousin, from whom He would take everything; and for Mameleu, who mourned his brothers, and had already lost too much.

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Yam-nahar himself sought out the best of men – but of these at first he found little, as the mightiest of nations would wage war from afar.

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The One Who is Justice and Mercy intoned solemnly that for their transgressions the stewardship of the land would be withdrawn from them and given to another whom He would form, and the Dragons would be prisoners in the land they had so injured, until Yam-nahar had made reparation for his sin.

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Yam-nahar bled into the ground where he was slain, and the earth recoiled from its crimson flow.

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And so it came to pass that in those last days, at the end of the stewardship of Man the great Dragon Yam-nahar was roused from his deep slumber by seven great trumpet blasts, to heed the call of the Lord, to atone for the first of all sins by serving as a harbinger to the end of time.

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The great Dragon Yam-nahar, who had contended and bested two of the mightiest of beasts, looked down upon the small, hairless creature and for the first time saw not prey, but one who had supplanted them as the stewards of the land, and great was his rage.

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You know of Set, Dragon made mortal, and his punishment; of how with the blood of Dragons in their veins, the Sons of Adam would repeat the crime of Yam-nahar – again, and again, and again …

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His great neck snapped forward and he engulfed the girl, the rosary and the knife, and she plummeted into his body, but while the beaded thread was consumed from the first, neither the girl nor her knife would dissolve in the juices of the Beast, and as her body lodged in his throat and her knife opened his belly, the great Dragon Yam-nahar fell quiet, breathed his last, and was satisfied.

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