# אָוֶן (aven)

Israeli respelling: a-ven. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H205. 79 Old Testament occurrences.

strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol

King James renderings: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369 (אַיִן).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/aven-h205

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 23:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/21) — He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is…
- [Deuteronomy 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/14) — I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead:…
- [1 Samuel 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/23) — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, h…
- [Job 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/8) — Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- [Job 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/6) — Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- [Job 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/11) — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- [Job 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/14) — If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- [Job 15:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/35) — They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- [Job 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/19) — God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
- [Job 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/15) — Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- [Job 31:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/3) — Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- [Job 34:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/8) — Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- [Job 34:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/22) — There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- [Job 34:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/36) — My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
- [Job 36:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/10) — He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- [Job 36:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/21) — Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- [Psalms 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/5/5) — The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
- [Psalms 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/6/8) — Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- [Psalms 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/14) — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- [Psalms 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/7) — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- [Psalms 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/14/4) — Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- [Psalms 28:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/28/3) — Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
- [Psalms 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/3) — The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- [Psalms 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/4) — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
- [Psalms 36:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/12) — There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
- [Psalms 41:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/6) — And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- [Psalms 53:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/53/4) — Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
- [Psalms 55:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/3) — Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
- [Psalms 55:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/10) — Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
- [Psalms 56:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/7) — Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- [Psalms 59:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/59/2) — Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
- [Psalms 59:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/59/5) — Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
- [Psalms 64:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/2) — Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- [Psalms 66:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/66/18) — If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
- [Psalms 90:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/90/10) — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and…
- [Psalms 92:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/7) — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- [Psalms 92:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/9) — For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
- [Psalms 94:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/4) — How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
- [Psalms 94:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/16) — Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
- [Psalms 94:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/23) — And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
- [Psalms 101:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/101/8) — I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
- [Psalms 119:133](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/133) — Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
- [Psalms 125:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/125/5) — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Isr…
- [Psalms 141:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/4) — Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
- [Psalms 141:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/9) — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- [Proverbs 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/12) — A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
- [Proverbs 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/18) — An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- [Proverbs 10:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/29) — The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- [Proverbs 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/7) — When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
- [Proverbs 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/21) — There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
- [Proverbs 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/4) — A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
- [Proverbs 19:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/28) — An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
- [Proverbs 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/15) — It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- [Proverbs 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/8) — He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
- [Proverbs 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/20) — Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
- [Isaiah 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/13) — Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;…
- [Isaiah 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/1) — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
- [Isaiah 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/20) — For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
- [Isaiah 31:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/2) — Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against…
- [Isaiah 32:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/6) — For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to ma…
- [Isaiah 41:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/29) — Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- [Isaiah 55:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/7) — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; an…
- [Isaiah 58:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/9) — Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the…
- [Isaiah 59:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/4) — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquit…
- [Isaiah 59:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/6) — Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act…
- [Isaiah 59:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/7) — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in…
- [Isaiah 66:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/3) — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as i…
- [Jeremiah 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/14) — O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- [Jeremiah 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/15) — For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
- [Ezekiel 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/2) — Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
- [Hosea 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/8) — Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
- [Hosea 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/4) — They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread…
- [Hosea 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/8) — The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shal…
- [Hosea 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/11) — Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of th…
- [Amos 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/5) — But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to…
- [Micah 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/1) — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of…
- [Habakkuk 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/3) — Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up stri…
- [Habakkuk 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/7) — I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
- [Zechariah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/2) — For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went t…