bet-aven · Beth-aven

What it means

bet-aven (בֵּית אָוֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Beth-aven”.

A place near Ai and Bethel. The name means "house of wickedness" or "house of nothing."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×4
• 1 Samuel×4
• Hosea×6

• Joshua 7:2

  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.

• Joshua 18:12

  And their border on the north side was from the Jordan, and the border went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and its ends were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

• 1 Samuel 13:5

  The Philistines gathered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

• 1 Samuel 14:23

  YHWH saved Israel on that day, and the war passed beyond Beth-aven.

• Hosea 4:15

  Though you, Israel, prostitute yourself, let not Judah become guilty; and do not come to Gilgal, and do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As YHWH lives.”

• Hosea 5:8

  Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; sound the alarm at Beth-aven: “After you, Benjamin.”

• Hosea 10:5

  For the calves of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid; for its people will mourn over it, and its pagan priests who rejoiced over it, over its glory, because it has gone into exile from it.

And 7 more times.