Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H206
אָוֶן
Avenaw'-ven
(Valley of) Aven
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÂven
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H206is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H206
Aven, the contemptuous synonym of three places, one in Coele-Syria, one in Egypt (On), and one in Palestine (Bethel)
The King James renders it: Aven. See also H204 (אוֹן), H1007 (בֵּית אָוֶן).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Aven is rendered "(Valley of) Aven". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Hosea, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Hosea 10:8The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
Hosea 10:8אָ֗וֶן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Aven1
- wickedness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָוֶן | aven | evil: wickedness | Uses77 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָ֗וֶן1
- אָ֔וֶן1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
Hosea
one use
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- אָ֗וֶןʾavennoun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
Amos
one use
I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.
- אָ֔וֶןʾavenproper noun (a name)tagged: Aven
The letters
Gematria 57· 707 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.