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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Aven
A Hebrew word for nothingness, used to mock real place names. Hosea turns Bethel into Beth-aven, house of vanity, for Jeroboam's golden calf. Ezekiel 30:17 uses it for On, the Egyptian city better known as Heliopolis.
A Hebrew word for nothingness, used to mock real place names. Hosea turns Bethel into Beth-aven, house of vanity, for Jeroboam's golden calf. Ezekiel 30:17 uses it for On, the Egyptian city better known as Heliopolis.
Aven is not a person but a Hebrew word meaning nothingness or vanity, used in several places as a mocking wordplay on real place names. Hosea applies it to Bethel, calling it Beth-aven, 'house of vanity,' because of the golden calf Jeroboam had set up there (Hosea 4:15; 10:8). Ezekiel 30:17 uses it for the Egyptian city of On, better known as Heliopolis, and Amos 1:5 uses it for a Syrian city usually identified with Baalbec.
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- Ezekiel 30:17
