Aven
אָ֫וֶןStrong’s H1008aven (a-ven)
Appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aven is the Hebrew word usually translated “-el”, “beth-” and “from beth-”. It appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament.
“When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,”
Meaning
- Aven = "vanity"
- § Bethel = "house of God"
How it's translated
- -el 71
- beth- 43
- in beth- 9
- and beth- 5
- from beth- 4
- at beth- 4
- of beth- 3
- to beth- 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 10
- Joshua 10
- 2 Kings 9
- Judges 8
- 1 Kings 8
- Amos 6
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 13:3And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
- Genesis 28:19And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
- Genesis 31:13I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
- Genesis 35:1And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
- Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
All 64 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אָ֫וֶן aven · Aven
Aven = "vanity" a name used contemptuously a place of idolatrous worship Bethel with its calf worship (Ho 10:8) Another name of bet-el (בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל "Bethel" H1008G)
בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל bet-el · Bethel
§ Bethel = "house of God" a place in south country of Judah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.