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AVEN
1. Term used by Ezekiel to describe On (Heliopolis), center of worship of the Egyptian sun god Ra (Ez 30:17). The Hebrew word aven (“wickedness”) was a play on the name On in a prophecy against the idolatry and wickedness of Egypt. See Heliopolis.
2. Epithet for Bethel (Hos 10:8), shortened from Beth-aven, “house of wickedness” (Hos 4:15; 5:8; 10:5). The prophet Hosea was condemning the northern kingdom’s idolatry, for which Bethel was one center (1 Kgs 12:28-29). See Beth-aven #2.
3. Valley where Syria was to be punished because of its transgression against the Lord (Am 1:5), perhaps an oblique reference to Baalbek, the center of Syria’s Baal worship in the Beqa’a valley.