ʼâven — H205

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. trouble, wickedness, sorrow
1. trouble, sorrow
2. idolatry
3. trouble of iniquity, wickedness

Usually translated as

iniquity, vanity, wicked, affliction, mischief, unrighteous, wickedness, evil, false, idol, mourners, mourning, naught, sorrow, unjust, vain

Origin

from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)

Greek equivalents

• ádikos (G94)
• anomía (G458)
• ánomos (G459)
• asebḗs (G765)
• átopos (G824)
• áphrōn (G878)
• gongysmós (G1112)
• kakós (G2556)
• kenós (G2756)
• kópos (G2873)
• mátaios (G3152)
• mataióō (G3154)
• móchthos (G3449)
• odýnē (G3601)
• pénthos (G3997)
• ponēría (G4189)
• pónos (G4192)
• hypárchō (G5225)

Occurrences

ʼâven occurs 79 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (1), Job (13), Psalms (29), Proverbs (10), Isaiah (12), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (3), Amos (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (2), Zechariah (1)

• Numbers 23:21 — He hath not beheld iniquity (אָ֙וֶן֙) in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
• Deuteronomy 26:14 — I have not eaten thereof in my mourning (בְאֹנִ֜י), neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
• 1 Samuel 15:23 — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity (וְאָ֥וֶן) and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
• Job 4:8 — Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity (אָ֑וֶן), and sow wickedness, reap the same.
• Job 5:6 — Although affliction (אָ֑וֶן) cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
• Job 11:11 — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness (אָ֝֗וֶן) also; will he not then consider it?
• Job 11:14 — If iniquity (אָ֣וֶן) be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
• Job 15:35 — They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity (אָ֑וֶן), and their belly prepareth deceit.
• Job 21:19 — God layeth up his iniquity (אוֹנ֑וֹ) for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
• Job 22:15 — Hast thou marked the old way which wicked (אָֽוֶן) men have trodden?
• Job 31:3 — Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן)?
• Job 34:8 — Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity (אָ֑וֶן), and walketh with wicked men.
• Job 34:22 — There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן) may hide themselves.
• Job 34:36 — My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked (אָֽוֶן) men.
• Job 36:10 — He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity (מֵאָֽוֶן).
• Job 36:21 — Take heed, regard not iniquity (אָ֑וֶן): for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
• Psalms 5:5 — The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן).
• Psalms 6:8 — Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity (אָ֑וֶן); for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
• Psalms 7:14 — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity (אָ֑וֶן), and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
• Psalms 10:7 — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity (וָאָֽוֶן).
• Psalms 14:4 — Have all the workers of iniquity (אָ֥וֶן) no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
• Psalms 28:3 — Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity (אָ֥וֶן), which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
• Psalms 36:3 — The words of his mouth are iniquity (אָ֣וֶן) and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• Psalms 36:4 — He deviseth mischief (אָ֤וֶן) upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
• Psalms 36:12 — There are the workers of iniquity (אָ֑וֶן) fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
• Psalms 41:6 — And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity (אָ֥וֶן) to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
• Psalms 53:4 — Have the workers of iniquity (אָ֥וֶן) no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
• Psalms 55:3 — Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity (אָ֝֗וֶן) upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
• Psalms 55:10 — Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief (וְאָ֖וֶן) also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
• Psalms 56:7 — Shall they escape by iniquity (אָ֥וֶן)? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
• Psalms 59:2 — Deliver me from the workers of iniquity (אָ֑וֶן), and save me from bloody men.
• 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 (אָ֣וֶן) transgressors. Selah.
• Psalms 64:2 — Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן):
• Psalms 66:18 — If I regard iniquity (אָ֭וֶן) in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
• 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 sorrow (וָאָ֑וֶן); for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
• Psalms 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity (אָ֑וֶן) do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Psalms 92:9 — For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן) shall be scattered.
• Psalms 94:4 — How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן) boast themselves?
• Psalms 94:16 — Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן)?
• Psalms 94:23 — And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity (אוֹנָ֗ם), and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
• Psalms 101:8 — I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked (אָֽוֶן) doers from the city of the LORD.
• Psalms 119:133 — Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity (אָֽוֶן) have dominion over me.
• Psalms 125:5 — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity (הָאָ֑וֶן): but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Psalms 141:4 — Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity (אָ֑וֶן): and let me not eat of their dainties.
• Psalms 141:9 — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן).
• Proverbs 6:12 — A naughty person, a wicked (אָ֑וֶן) man, walketh with a froward mouth.
• Proverbs 6:18 — An heart that deviseth wicked (אָ֑וֶן) imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
• Proverbs 10:29 — The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity (אָֽוֶן).
• Proverbs 11:7 — When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
• Proverbs 12:21 — There shall no evil (אָ֑וֶן) happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.