Bible Names

Aner: meaning of the name

Aner means “answer; song; affliction.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Aner in Hebrew and Greek

עָנֵר H6063

ʻÂnêr (aw-nare') — Aner, a Amorite, also a place in Palestine

probably for H5288 (נַעַר);

Who named Aner in the Bible

Places named Aner

Aner in Scripture

“Aner” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 14:13

    And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

  • Genesis 14:24

    Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:70

    And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.