H205 אָוֶן
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 78 KJV occurrences
אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
Definition
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV Renderings
affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369 (אַיִן).
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 78)
- Numbers 23:21He 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 is among them.
- Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 56:7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- Psalms 94:23And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
- Proverbs 11:7When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
- Isaiah 31:2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
- Jeremiah 4:15For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.