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Lexicon :: Strong's H205 - 'āven

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אָוֶן
Transliteration
'āven
Pronunciation
aw-ven'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain
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TWOT Reference: 48a

Strong’s Definitions

אָוֶן ʼâven, aw-ven'; 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 H369.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's H205 in the following manner: iniquity (47x), wicked(ness) (8x), vanity (6x), affliction (3x), mischief (3x), unrighteous (2x), evil (1x), false (1x), idol (1x), mourners (1x), mourning (1x), nought (1x), sorrow (1x), unjust (1x), vain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's H205 in the following manner: iniquity (47x), wicked(ness) (8x), vanity (6x), affliction (3x), mischief (3x), unrighteous (2x), evil (1x), false (1x), idol (1x), mourners (1x), mourning (1x), nought (1x), sorrow (1x), unjust (1x), vain (1x).

  1. trouble, wickedness, sorrow

    1. trouble, sorrow

    2. idolatry

    3. trouble of iniquity, wickedness

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָוֶן ʼâven, aw-ven'; 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 H369.
STRONGS H205: Abbreviations
אָ֫וֶן 85 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 בֶּן־אוֺנִי son of my trouble or sorrow Genesis 35:18 (E); לֹא הִבִּיט אָוֶן בְּיַעֲקֹב Numbers 23:21 (song of Balaam), he doth not behold trouble in Jacob (|| he doth not see misery — עָמָל — in Israel); often || עָמָל Psalm 7:15 (הִנֵּה יְחַבֶּל־אָוֶן lo he travaileth with trouble || וְהָרָה עָמָל וְיָלַד שָׁ֑קֶר, yea he hath conceived misery & brought forth a lie), probably thence Job 15:35 (הָרהֹ עָמָל וְיָלֹד אָוֶן) = Isaiah 59:4; compare עָמָל וָאָוֶן Psalm 10:7; Psalm 55:11; Psalm 90:10; Job 4:8; Job 5:6; Isaiah 10:1 (see עָמָל); also זוֺרֵעַ עַוְלָה יִקְצָר־אָוֶן 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 לֶחֶם אוֺנִים bread of trouble, sorrow, or mourning Hosea 9:4.
2. idolatry Hosea 12:12; Isaiah 41:29; אָוֶן וּתְרָפִים הַפְצַ֑ר stubbornness is idolatry & (the use of) teraphim 1 Samuel 15:23 (poetry source); אָוֶן בֵּית Hosea 4:15 (for בֵּית אֵל because Bethel, house of God, is given over to idolatry) so also Hosea 5:8; Hosea 10:5 compare בָּמוֺת א׳ [H206 Hosea 10:8]; בִּקְעַת א׳ [H206 Amos 1:5] (Baalbek); בַּחוּרֵי א׳ read אוֺן, [H204 אֹן = On], Heliopolis [H206 Ezekiel 30:17]; — abstract for concrete = idols Isaiah 66:3.
3. trouble of iniquity, wickedness, מְתֵי אָוֶן Job 22:15; אַנְשֵׁי א׳ Job 34:36 = men of trouble, troublers, wicked men; compare אִישׁ א׳ Proverbs 6:12; Isaiah 55:17; אָוֶן פֹּעֲלֵי workers of trouble, evil-doers, workers of iniquity Job 31:3; Job 34:8,22; Psalm 5:6; + (16 times chiefly late Psalms) Proverbs 10:29; Proverbs 21:15; Isaiah 31:2; Hosea 6:8; מַחְשְׁבוֺת אָוֶן thoughts of trouble, wicked imaginations Proverbs 6:18; Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 4:14; often of words & thoughts Job 11:11 + (5 times) Psalm 36:5 + (9 times) Proverbs 17:4; Proverbs 19:28; Proverbs 30:20; Isaiah 29:20; Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 59:6; Ezekiel 11:2; Micah 2:1; Habakkuk 1:3; Zechariah 10:2; לֹא אוּכַל אָוֶן וַעֲצָרָה Isaiah 1:13 I cannot bear iniquity with the solemn meeting (RV & most modern; AV it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

35:18; 35:18

Numbers

23:21; 23:21

Deuteronomy

26:14

1 Samuel

15:23

Job

4:8; 5:6; 5:6; 11:11; 15:35; 22:15; 31:3; 34:8; 34:22; 34:36

Psalms

5:6; 7:15; 10:7; 36:5; 55:11; 90:10

Proverbs

6:12; 6:18; 10:29; 12:21; 17:4; 19:28; 21:15; 22:8; 30:20

Isaiah

1:13; 10:1; 29:20; 31:2; 32:6; 41:29; 58:9; 59:4; 59:6; 59:7; 66:3

Jeremiah

4:14; 4:15

Ezekiel

11:2

Hosea

4:15; 5:8; 6:8; 9:4; 9:4; 10:5; 12:12

Amos

5:5

Micah

2:1

Habakkuk

1:3; 3:7

Zechariah

10:2

H205

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Strong's Number H205 matches the Hebrew אָוֶן ('āven),
which occurs 79 times in 79 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 23:21–Pro 12:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14 - No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14 - If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:19 - You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:15 - Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:3 - Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:8 - And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36 - May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:10 - Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:21 - Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:5 - The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:8 - Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 - Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 - Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:3 - In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:12 - There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4 - Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:3 - I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7 - By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:2 - Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 - You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:2 - Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:18 - I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:9 - For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:4 - Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:16 - Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 - And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - Morning by morning will I put to death all the sinners in the land, so that all evil-doers may be cut off from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:133

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:133 - Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:5 - But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:9 - Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:12 - A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:18 - A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:29 - The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:7 - At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 - No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

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