nothingness; vanity.

Hosea speaks of the "high places of Aven" ( 10:8 ), by which he means Bethel. He also calls it Beth-aven, i.e., "the house of vanity" ( 4:15 ), on account of the golden calves Jeroboam had set up there ( 1 Kings 12:28 ).

Translated by the LXX. "On" in Ezekiel 30:17 . The Egyptian Heliopolis or city of On (q.v.).

In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern Baalbec.

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.