Beth-aven

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Beth-aven
     house of nothingness; i.e., "of idols", a place in the mountains
     of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Josh. 7:2; 18:12; 1 Sam. 13:5). In
     Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 it stands for "Bethel" (q.v.), and it is so
     called because it was no longer the "house of God," but "the
     house of idols," referring to the calves there worshipped.


     

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

  Beth-aven, the house of vanity; of iniquity of trouble