Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H205: אָוֶן (ʼâven) Definition

Strong's number
H205
Lemma
אָוֶן
Transliteration
ʼâven
Pronunciation
aw-ven'
Strong's definition
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369 (אַיִן). from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught);

78 instances of the word אָוֶן ʼâven (H205)


  • Isaiah 66:3 - He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's he that offereth an oblation blood as if he offered swine's he that burneth incense as if he blessed an idol Yea they have chosen their own ways in their abominations and their soul delighteth

  • Jeremiah 4:14 - wash from wickedness thine heart O Jerusalem that thou mayest be saved lodge within thoughts How long shall thy vain

  • Jeremiah 4:15 - For a voice declareth from Dan and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim

  • Job 4:8 - Even as I have seen they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap

  • Job 5:6 - cometh not forth of the dust Although affliction of the ground spring out neither doth trouble

  • Job 11:11 - For he knoweth men vain he seeth wickedness also will he not then consider

  • Job 11:14 - If iniquity be in thine hand put it far away dwell in thy tabernacles and let not wickedness

  • Job 15:35 - They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity and their belly prepareth deceit

  • Job 21:19 - God layeth up for his children his iniquity he rewardeth him and he shall know

  • Job 22:15 - way the old Hast thou marked have trodden men which wicked

  • Job 31:3 - Is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity

  • Job 34:8 - Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity with wicked

  • Job 34:22 - There is no darkness nor shadow of death may hide where the workers of iniquity

  • Job 34:36 - My desire may be tried is that Job unto the end because of his answers for wicked

  • Job 36:10 - He openeth also their ear to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity

  • Job 36:21 - Take heed regard not iniquity for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction

  • Micah 2:1 - Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds is light when the morning they practise it because it is in the power of their hand

  • Numbers 23:21 - He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel the LORD his God is with him and the shout of a king

  • Proverbs 6:12 - person A naughty man a wicked walketh with a froward mouth

  • Proverbs 6:18 - An heart that deviseth imaginations wicked feet that be swift in running to mischief