From an unused root perhaps meaning properly to pant (hence to exert {oneself} usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also {trouble}vanity6 wickedness; specifically an idol: - {affliction} {evil} {false} {idol} {iniquity} {mischief} mourners ({-ing}) {naught} {sorrow} {unjust} {unrighteous} {vain} {vanity} wicked (-ness.) Compare H369.
The same as H205; idolatry; {Aven} the contemptuous synonym of three {places} one in Coele {Syria} one in Egypt ({On}) and one in Palestine (Bethel): - Aven. See also {H204} H1007.
Hos 10:8The high places also of AvenH206, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Amo 1:5I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of AvenH206, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD. ▼▼