Strong's Hebrew · H205
אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
Definitionstrictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
Derivationfrom an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught);
KJV usageaffliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369 (אַיִן).
Occurrences79 in the KJV · 79 verses
אָוֶן in Scripture
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 is among them.
Deuteronomy 26:14
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away aught thereof for any unclean use , nor given aught thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5:6
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 11:11
For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it ?
Job 11:14
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job 21:19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it .
Job 22:15
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
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, and walketh with wicked men.
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