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Lexicon :: Strong's H205 - 'āven

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אָוֶן
Transliteration
'āven
Pronunciation
aw-ven'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain
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TWOT Reference: 48a

Strong’s Definitions

אָוֶן ʼâven, aw-ven'; from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:—affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's H205 in the following manner: iniquity (47x), wicked(ness) (8x), vanity (6x), affliction (3x), mischief (3x), unrighteous (2x), evil (1x), false (1x), idol (1x), mourners (1x), mourning (1x), nought (1x), sorrow (1x), unjust (1x), vain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's H205 in the following manner: iniquity (47x), wicked(ness) (8x), vanity (6x), affliction (3x), mischief (3x), unrighteous (2x), evil (1x), false (1x), idol (1x), mourners (1x), mourning (1x), nought (1x), sorrow (1x), unjust (1x), vain (1x).

  1. trouble, wickedness, sorrow

    1. trouble, sorrow

    2. idolatry

    3. trouble of iniquity, wickedness

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָוֶן ʼâven, aw-ven'; from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:—affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369.
STRONGS H205: Abbreviations
אָ֫וֶן 85 noun masculineJob 5:6 trouble, sorrow, wickedness — absolute Numbers 23:21 +; suffix אוֺנִי Genesis 35:18 etc.; plural אוֺנִים Hosea 9:4 —
1. trouble, sorrow בֶּן־אוֺנִי son of my trouble or sorrow Genesis 35:18 (E); לֹא הִבִּיט אָוֶן בְּיַעֲקֹב Numbers 23:21 (song of Balaam), he doth not behold trouble in Jacob (|| he doth not see misery — עָמָל — in Israel); often || עָמָל Psalm 7:15 (הִנֵּה יְחַבֶּל־אָוֶן lo he travaileth with trouble || וְהָרָה עָמָל וְיָלַד שָׁ֑קֶר, yea he hath conceived misery & brought forth a lie), probably thence Job 15:35 (הָרהֹ עָמָל וְיָלֹד אָוֶן) = Isaiah 59:4; compare עָמָל וָאָוֶן Psalm 10:7; Psalm 55:11; Psalm 90:10; Job 4:8; Job 5:6; Isaiah 10:1 (see עָמָל); also זוֺרֵעַ עַוְלָה יִקְצָר־אָוֶן Proverbs 22:8 the sower of iniquity shall reap trouble; in this sense elsewhere only Deuteronomy 26:14; Proverbs 12:21; Jeremiah 4:15; Habakkuk 3:7; Amos 5:5, plural intensive לֶחֶם אוֺנִים bread of trouble, sorrow, or mourning Hosea 9:4.
2. idolatry Hosea 12:12; Isaiah 41:29; אָוֶן וּתְרָפִים הַפְצַ֑ר stubbornness is idolatry & (the use of) teraphim 1 Samuel 15:23 (poetry source); אָוֶן בֵּית Hosea 4:15 (for בֵּית אֵל because Bethel, house of God, is given over to idolatry) so also Hosea 5:8; Hosea 10:5 compare בָּמוֺת א׳ [H206 Hosea 10:8]; בִּקְעַת א׳ [H206 Amos 1:5] (Baalbek); בַּחוּרֵי א׳ read אוֺן, [H204 אֹן = On], Heliopolis [H206 Ezekiel 30:17]; — abstract for concrete = idols Isaiah 66:3.
3. trouble of iniquity, wickedness, מְתֵי אָוֶן Job 22:15; אַנְשֵׁי א׳ Job 34:36 = men of trouble, troublers, wicked men; compare אִישׁ א׳ Proverbs 6:12; Isaiah 55:17; אָוֶן פֹּעֲלֵי workers of trouble, evil-doers, workers of iniquity Job 31:3; Job 34:8,22; Psalm 5:6; + (16 times chiefly late Psalms) Proverbs 10:29; Proverbs 21:15; Isaiah 31:2; Hosea 6:8; מַחְשְׁבוֺת אָוֶן thoughts of trouble, wicked imaginations Proverbs 6:18; Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 4:14; often of words & thoughts Job 11:11 + (5 times) Psalm 36:5 + (9 times) Proverbs 17:4; Proverbs 19:28; Proverbs 30:20; Isaiah 29:20; Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 59:6; Ezekiel 11:2; Micah 2:1; Habakkuk 1:3; Zechariah 10:2; לֹא אוּכַל אָוֶן וַעֲצָרָה Isaiah 1:13 I cannot bear iniquity with the solemn meeting (RV & most modern; AV it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

35:18; 35:18

Numbers

23:21; 23:21

Deuteronomy

26:14

1 Samuel

15:23

Job

4:8; 5:6; 5:6; 11:11; 15:35; 22:15; 31:3; 34:8; 34:22; 34:36

Psalms

5:6; 7:15; 10:7; 36:5; 55:11; 90:10

Proverbs

6:12; 6:18; 10:29; 12:21; 17:4; 19:28; 21:15; 22:8; 30:20

Isaiah

1:13; 10:1; 29:20; 31:2; 32:6; 41:29; 58:9; 59:4; 59:6; 59:7; 66:3

Jeremiah

4:14; 4:15

Ezekiel

11:2

Hosea

4:15; 5:8; 6:8; 9:4; 9:4; 10:5; 12:12

Amos

5:5

Micah

2:1

Habakkuk

1:3; 3:7

Zechariah

10:2

H205

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Strong's Number H205 matches the Hebrew אָוֶן ('āven),
which occurs 29 times in 29 verses in 'Psa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:5 - The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. H205

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:8 - Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; H205 for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, H205 and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. H205

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 - Have all the workers of iniquity H205 no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 - Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, H205 which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:3 - The words of his mouth are iniquity H205 and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He deviseth mischief H205 upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:12 - There are the workers of iniquity H205 fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity H205 to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 53:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4 - Have the workers of iniquity H205 no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:3 - Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity H205 upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief H205 also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7 - Shall they escape by iniquity? H205 in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:2 - Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, H205 and save me from bloody men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 H205 transgressors. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:2 - Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: H205

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 66:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:18 - If I regard iniquity H205 in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 sorrow; H205 for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity H205 do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:9 - For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity H205 shall be scattered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:4 - How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity H205 boast themselves?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:16 - Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? H205

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 - And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, H205 and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 101:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked H205 doers from the city of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:133

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:133 - Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity H205 have dominion over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 125:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:5 - As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: H205 but peace shall be upon Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: H205 and let me not eat of their dainties.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:9 - Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. H205
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