Lexical Summary aven: trouble, sorrow, wickedness Original Word: אָוֶןTransliteration: aven Phonetic Spelling: (aw-ven') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: trouble, sorrow, wickedness Meaning: strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol Strong's Concordance affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourner, naught, From an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); 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 'ayin. see HEBREW 'ayin Brown-Driver-Briggs H205. aven אָ֫וֶן85 noun masculineJob 5:6 trouble, sorrow, wickedness — absolute Numbers 23:21 +; suffix אוֺנִי Genesis 35:18 etc.; plural אוֺנִים Hosea 9:4 — 1 trouble, sorrow בֶּןאֿוֺנִי son of my trouble or sorrow Genesis 35:18 (E); בְּיַעֲקֹב אָוֶן הִבִּיט לֹא Numbers 23:21 (song of Balaam), he doth not behold trouble in Jacob ("" he doth not see misery — עָמָל — in Isr); often "" עָמָל Psalm 7:15 (יְחַבֶּלאָֿוֶן הִנֵּה lo he travaileth with trouble "" שָׁ֑קֶר וְיָלַד עָמָל וְהָרָה, yea he hath conceived misery & brought forth a lie), probably thence Job 15:35 (אָוֶן וְיָלֹד עָמָל הָרהֹ) = Isaiah 59:4; compare וָאָוֶן עָמָל Psalm 10:7; 55:11; 90:10; Job 4:8; 5:6; Isaiah 10:1 (see עָמָל); also יִקְצָראָֿוֶן עַוְלָה זוֺרֵעַ Proverbs 22:8 the sower of iniquity shall reap trouble; in this sense elsewhere only Deuteronomy 26:14; Proverbs 12:21; Jeremiah 4:15; Habakkuk 3:7; Amos 5:5, plural intensive אוֺנִים לֶחֶם bread of trouble, sorrow, or mourning Hosea 9:4. 2 idolatry Hosea 12:12; Isaiah 41:29; הַפְצַ֑ר וּתְרָפִים אָוֶן stubbornness is idolatry & (the use of) teraphim 1 Samuel 15:23 (poetry source); בֵּית אָוֶן Hosea 4:15 (for אֵל בֵּיתbecause Bethel, house of God, is given over to idolatry) so also 5:8; 10:5 compare א ׳בָּמוֺת 10:8; א ׳בִּקְעַת Amos 1:5 (Baalbek); א ׳בַּחוּרֵי read אֹן אוֺן, = On, Heliopolis Ezekiel 30:17; — abstract for concrete = idols Isaiah 66:3. 3 trouble of iniquity, wickedness, אָוֶן מְתֵי Job 22:15; א ׳אַנְשֵׁי 34:36 = men of trouble, troublers, wicked men; compare א ׳אִישׁ Proverbs 6:12; Isaiah 55:17; אָוֶן מֹּעֲלֵי workers of trouble, evil-doers, workers of iniquity Job 31:3; 34:8, 22; Psalm 5:6; + (16 t. chiefly late Psalms) Proverbs 10:29; 21:15; Isaiah 31:2; Hosea 6:8; אָוֶן מַחְשְׁבוֺת thoughts of trouble, wicked imaginations Proverbs 6:18; Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 4:14; often of words & thoughts Job 11:11 + (5 t.) Psalm 36:5 + (9 t.) Proverbs 17:4; 19:28; 30:20; Isaiah 29:20; 32:6; 58:9; 59:6; Ezekiel 11:2; Micah 2:1; Habakkuk 1:3; Zechariah 10:2; וַעֲצָרָה אָוֶן אוּכַל לֹא Isaiah 1:13 I cannot bear iniquity with the solemn meeting (RV & most modern; AV it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting). אֹן sorrow, see אָוֶן. |
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