Aven

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Aven
     nothingness; vanity. (1.) 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).
     


       (2.) Translated by the LXX. "On" in Ezek. 30:17. The Egyptian
     Heliopolis or city of On (q.v.).
     
       (3.) In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern
     Baalbec.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Aven, iniquity; force; riches; sorrow