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AVEN

(Heb. ʾāwen)

1. An abbreviation of Beth-aven, the pejorative nickname (“House of Wickedness”) of the town and sanctuary of Bethel (“House of God”; Hos. 10:8; cf. Jer. 4:15). Amos first coined the derogatory pun (Amos 5:5), and Hosea embraced it (Hos. 4:15; 10:5).

2. A derisive epithet for an Aramaean valley, probably between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains (Amos 1:5).

3. A city which the MT vocalizes as “Aven” (ʾwn, Ezek. 30:17), probably indicting the metropolis’s celebrated sun worship. The city is probably the Egyptian city On (Heliopolis; cf. Gen. 41:45, 50; 46:20).

Stephen L. Cook






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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