Lexical Definition

‎אָוֶן‎ ʼâven (aw-ven') evil: wickedness ^H:N-M
from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)

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

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

1) trouble, wickedness, sorrow
1a) trouble, sorrow
1b) idolatry
1c) trouble of iniquity, wickedness

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Extended Information

meaning of: אָוֶן

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: אוֹן

‎אָ֫וֶן‎₈₅ noun masculine^{Job 5:6} trouble, sorrow, wickedness — absolute Num 23:21 +; suffix ‎אוֺנִי‎ Gen 35:18 etc.; plural ‎אוֺנִים‎ Hos 9:4 —

1. trouble, sorrow ‎בֶּןאֿוֺנִי‎ son of my trouble or sorrow Gen 35:18 (E); ‎לֹא הִבִּיט אָוֶן בְּיַעֲקֹב‎ Num 23:21 (song of Balaam), he doth not behold trouble in Jacob (|| he doth not see misery — ‎עָמָל‎ — in Isr); often || ‎עָמָל‎ Ps 7:15* (‎הִנֵּה יְחַבֶּלאָֿוֶן‎ 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) = Isa 59:4 compare ‎עָמָל וָאָוֶן‎ Ps 10:7; Ps 55:11*; Ps 90:10; Job 4:8; Job 5:6; Isa 10:1 (see ‎עָמָל‎); also ‎זוֺרֵעַ עַוְלָה יִקְצָראָֿוֶן‎ Prov 22:8 the sower of iniquity shall reap trouble; in this sense elsewhere only Deut 26:14; Prov 12:21; Jer 4:15; Hab 3:7; Amos 5:5, plural intensive ‎לֶחֶם אוֺנִים‎ bread of trouble, sorrow, or mourning Hos 9:4.

2. idolatry Hos 12:12*; Isa 41:29 ‎אָוֶן וּתְרָפִים הַפְצַ֑ר‎ stubbornness is idolatry & (the use of) teraphim 1Sam 15:23 (poetry source); ‎אָוֶן בֵּית‎ Hos 4:15 (for ‎בֵּית אֵל‎because Bethel, house of God, is given over to idolatry) so also Hos 5:8; Hos 10:5 compare ‎׳‎‎בָּמוֺת א‎ Hos 10:8 ‎׳‎‎בִּקְעַת א‎ Amos 1:5 (Baalbek); ‎׳‎‎בַּחוּרֵי א‎ read ‎אוֺן‎, ‎אֹן‎ = On, Heliopolis Ezek 30:17 — abstract for concrete = idols Isa 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 Prov 6:12; ‎פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן‎ workers of trouble, evil-doers, workers of iniquity Job 31:3; Job 34:8; Job 34:22; Ps 5:6* + (16 t. chiefly late Psalms) Prov 10:29; Prov 21:15; Isa 31:2; Hos 6:8 ‎מַחְשְׁבוֺת אָוֶן‎ thoughts of trouble, wicked imaginations Prov 6:18; Isa 59:7; Jer 4:14 often of words & thoughts Job 11:11 + (5 t.) Ps 36:5* + (9 t.) Prov 17:4; Prov 19:28; Prov 30:20; Isa 29:20; Isa 32:6; Isa 58:9; Isa 59:6; Ezek 11:2; Mic 2:1; Hab 1:3; Zech 10:2 ‎לֹא‎ ‎אוּכַל אָוֶן וַעֲצָרָה‎ Isa 1:13 I cannot bear iniquity with the solemn meeting (RV & most modern; AV it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting).

‎אֹן‎ sorrow, see ‎אָוֶן‎.

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