House** of Wickedness

In Bible versions:

Aven: AVS NRSV NASB TEV
aven: NIV
House** of Wickedness: NET
Wicked: NET

iniquity; force; riches; sorrow

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a town of Benjamin
a situation; their home valley full of wickedness

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Hebrew

Strongs #0206: Nwa 'Aven

Aven = "vanity"

1) a name used contemptuously for the following places of
idolatrous worship
1a) a city in Egypt, possibly On (Eze 30:17)
1b) Bethel with its calf worship (Ho 10:8)
1c) A town or region in Syria (Am 1:5)

206 'Aven aw'-ven

the same as 205; idolatry; Aven, the contemptuous synonym of three places, one in Coele-Syria, one in Egypt (On), and one in Palestine (Bethel): KJV -- Aven. See also 204, 1007.
see HEBREW for 0205
see HEBREW for 0204
see HEBREW for 01007

Aven [nave]

AVEN
1. "The plain of the Sun,'' Amos 1:5.
2. Another name for On, Ezek. 30:17.
3. Beth-aven, Hos. 10:8.

Aven [ebd]

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.

AVEN [smith]

(nothingness).

1. The "plain of Aven" is mentioned by (Amos 1:5) in his denunciation of Syria and the country to the north of Palestine. This Aven is by some supposed to be the once magnificent Heiropolis, "city of I the sun," now Baalbek (Bal?bek) of Coele-Syria, whose ruins are one of the wonders of the ages. It was situated in a plain near the foot of the Anti-Libanus range of mountains, 42 miles northwest of Damascus. It is famous for the colossal ruins of its temples, one of which with its courts and porticos, extended over 1000 feet in length. The temples were built of marble or limestone and granite. Some of the columns were 7 feet in diameter and 62 feet high, or including capital and pedestal, 89 feet. Some of the building-stones were 64 feet long and 12 feet thick. The temples are of Roman origin.
2. In (Hosea 10:8) the word is clearly an abbreviation of Bethaven, that is, Bethel. Comp. (Hosea 4:15) etc.
3. The sacred city of Heliopolis or On, in Egypt. (Ezekiel 30:17)

AVEN [isbe]

AVEN - a'-ven 'awen "emptiness," "vanity": Used in Ezek 30:17 for On or Heliopolis, in Egypt. See ON. As a term of contempt Hosea calls Beth-el "Beth-aven" (4:15; 10:5). So Amos speaks of some valley near Damascus as "the valley of Aven" (that is, of the idol, 1:5), in which Baalbek (Heliopolis) was situated. The word is rendered "idol" in Isa 66:3.