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 Kgs 12:28).
Translated by the LXX. “On” in Ezek 30:17. The Egyptian Heliopolis or city of On (q.v.).
In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern Baalbec.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
a'-ven 'awen "emptiness," "vanity": Used in Ezek 30:17 for On or Heliopolis, in Egypt. See ON. As a term of contempt Hosea calls Beth-el "Beth-aven" (4:15; 10:5). So Amos speaks of some valley near Damascus as "the valley of Aven" (that is, of the idol, 1:5), in which Baalbek (Heliopolis) was situated. The word is rendered "idol" in Isa 66:3.
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