ANDRONICLIS lan'dro-n('kus or ?in-(' rOn'i-kus), (Gr. 'A OpOPIKOr, - dro -CC koc, man of victory).
I. The regent governor of Antioch in the ab• settee of Antioehus, hIpiphanes, who, at the insti gation of Menelaus. put to death the deposed high priest thlias, for which deed he was himself ig nominiously slain on the romp of Antiochus (2 Mace. iv), B. C. I(w) 2. A Jewish Christian of Rome, the kinsman and fellow-prisoner of Paul (Rom. xvi :7). ANEM (a'nem), lel). = two foun tains), a city of Issachar, given to the Levites, Chron. vi:73. In the parallel passage, Josh. xix:2I, it is called En ,trannim,i. e., fountain of the gardens. This place, which is well watered whence perhaps its name. 'two springs' is the Anea of the fourth century A. I). (Onomaqieon, s. Aniel and Bethana), which had good baths, lying fifteen Roman miles from Ctcsarea. Eusebius, however, identifies this site with Auer.
ANER (a'ncr), (Heb. aw-nare', a youth, an exile).
1. Aner, Eshcol.and Mamre, three Canaanitcs who joined their forces with those of Abraham in pursuit of the kings Chedorlaomer, Amraphel, and their allies, who had pillaged Sodom, and carried off Lot, Abraham's nephew, Gen. xiv:24. They did not imitate the disinterestedness of the patri arch, however, but retained their share of the spoil.
As Nlamre is an old name for Hebron(Gen.xxiii:2), and Eshcol is the name of a valley not far from Hebron (Num. xiii:23), it is natural to suppose that Auer also was the name of a locality which gave its name to a clan. Dillmann (in compares A•ir, which is the name of a range of hills in the vicinity.
2. A city of Manasseh, given to the Levites of Kohath's family (t Citron. vi:70).