Category:Aven

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Aven - Nothingness; vanity. (1.) Hosea speaks of the "high places of Aven" (Hosea 10:8), by which he means Bethel. He also calls in Beth-aven, i.e., "the house of vanity" (Hosea 4:15), on account of the golden calves Jeroboam had set up there (1 Kings 12:28). (2.)Translated by the LXX. "On" in Ezekiel 30:17. The Egyptian Heliopolis or city of On (q.v.). (3.)In Amos 1:5 it denotes the Syrian Heliopolis, the modern Baalbec.