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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Aven | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Aven | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Aven nothingness; vanity. (1.) Hosea speaks of the "high places of Aven" (10:8), by which he means Bethel. He also calls it Beth-aven, i.e., "the house of vanity" (4:15), on account of the golden calves Jeroboam had set up there (1 Kings 12:28). (2.) Translated by the LXX. "On" in Ezek. 30:17. The Egyptian Heliopolis or city of On (q.v.). (3.) In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern Baalbec. | |
| From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
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Aven, iniquity; force; riches; sorrow | |
