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2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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]: Aven, iniquity; force; riches; sorrow
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