בֵּית אָוֶן
Bêyth ʼÂven · H1007 · Hebrew · proper noun · 14 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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Beth-Aven
Town; territory of Benjamin
ExamplesJoshua 7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
Joshua 18:12 Their border on the north side was from the Jordan, then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 13:5 Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
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Beth-Aven
Town; territory of Ephraim probably a pun or word-play on the name Bethel ("house of God")
ExamplesHosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, Judah must not become guilty; Also you are not to go to Gilgal, Nor go up to Beth-aven And take the oath: “As the LORD lives!”
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it, Over its glory, since it has left it.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- This is the name of a place near Bethel and Ai, mentioned as a landmark in Joshua's spy narrative in Joshua 7:2 and again as a wilderness boundary in Joshua 18:12.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1007. Beyth 'Aven אָ֫וֶן בֵּית proper name, of a location (house of iniquity or…
'Aven אָ֫וֶן בֵּית proper name, of a location (house of iniquity or idolatry? hardly likely unless as alteration of original אוֺן בֵּית, house of wealth or strength) eastward from Bethel Jos 7:2; Jos 18:12; 1Sa 14:23; 1Sa 13:5 ׳בֵּיתאֿ (on Hos 4:15; Hos 5:8; Hos 10:5 see ֵבּיתְאֵל below); site unknown.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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