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Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #5755 - עַוָּא

Transliteration

ʻIvvâh

Phonetics

iv-vaw', av-vaw'

Origin

for (H5754)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Ava or Ivah = "ruin"
1. a city conquered by the Assyrians

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

BSB (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

CSB (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

ESV (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

KJV (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

LEB (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

LSB (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

N95 (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

NAS (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (4)

2 Kings 3

Isaiah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. עַוָּה, עִוָּה proper name, of a location city conquered by Assyrians; — עַוָּה 2 Kings 17:24 (van d. H. עַוָּא) = עִוָּה 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13 = Isaiah 37:13; ᵐ5 Αια(ν), Ανα, and ( 2 Kings 19:13) Ουδου, A Αυτα, ᵐ5^L Αιναγ, etc.; site in Northern Syria Wkl^{Alttest. Unters. 102f.} Benz; Sachau^{ZA xii (1897), 48} proposes Emma (Tab. Pentateuch) = Ἴμμα Ptol^{see 15,15, modern} ±Imm between Antioch and Aleppo. — I. עַוָּה see below I. עוה.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עַוָּא [Ava], 2 Kings 17:24 see עִוָּה.

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List of Word Forms

וְעִוָּ֑ה וְעִוָּֽה׃ וּמֵעַוָּ֤א ומעוא ועוה ועוה׃ ū·mê·‘aw·wā ūmê‘awwā umeavVa veivVah wə‘iwwāh wə·‘iw·wāh