Aven
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nothingness; vanity.
(1.) Hosea speaks of the "high places of Aven" (Hos 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
(3.) In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern Baalbec.
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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