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Aven

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Nothingness; vanity.

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 ).

Translated by the LXX. "On" in Ezekiel 30:17 . The Egyptian Heliopolis or city of On (q.v.).

In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern Baalbec.

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These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Aven'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/a/aven.html. 1897.

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