בֵּית אָ֫וֶן
Beth-aven
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1007 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 7:2 בֵּ֥ית אָ֨וֶן֙ n Proper n Proper Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.
- Joshua 18:12 בֵּ֥ית אָֽוֶן n Proper n Proper Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 13:5 בֵּ֥ית אָֽוֶן n Proper n Proper The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- 1 Samuel 14:23 בֵּ֥ית אָֽוֶן n Proper n Proper So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 4:15 בֵּ֣ית אָ֔וֶן n Proper n Proper "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, Yet don't let Judah offend; And don't come to Gilgal, Neither go up to Beth Aven, Nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'
- Hosea 5:8 בֵּ֣ית אָ֔וֶן n Proper n Proper "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
- Hosea 10:5 בֵּ֣ית אָ֔וֶן n Proper n Proper The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Beth-aven” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בית און (Bêyth ʼÂven). Scripture first uses it in Joshua 7:2. It appears 7 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Hosea. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1007 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bethaven 7×
- American Standard Version: Beth-aven 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Beth-aven 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beth aven 8×, Aven 3×, Beth 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1007 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1007 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1007 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1007 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Beth-aven = "house of vanity"
- a city east of Bethel, site unknown
Word origin
n.pr.loc. (house of iniquity or idolatry? hardly likely unless as alteration of orig. בֵּית אוֹן, house of wealth or strength) eastward from Bethel Jos 7:2; 18:12 1 S 14:23; 1 S 13:5 בֵּית־א׳ (on Ho 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 v. בֵּֽיתְאֵל infr.); site unknown.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בית (bayith) (H1004) — house.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H1007 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּ֥ית | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:5 | 4 |
| אָ֔וֶן | Noun, Proper | Hosea 4:15 | 3 |
| אָֽוֶן | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:5 | 3 |
| בֵּ֣ית | Noun, Proper | Hosea 4:15 | 3 |
| אָ֨וֶן֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 7:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1007, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- Βηθαβαρα Bēthabará G962 Bethabara
- בית Bayith H1006 Bajith
- ביתאל Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 Bethel
- בית ארבאל Bêyth ʼArbêʼl H1009 Beth-Arbel
- בית בעל מעון Bêyth Baʻal Mᵉʻôwn H1010 Beth-baal-meon
- בית בראי Bêyth Birʼîy H1011 Beth-birei
- בית ברה Bêyth Bârâh H1012 Beth-barah
- ביתגדר Bêyth-Gâdêr H1013 Beth-gader
- בית גמול Bêyth Gâmûwl H1014 Beth-gamul
- בית דבלתים Bêyth Diblâthayim H1015 Beth-diblathaim
- ביתדגון Bêyth-Dâgôwn H1016 Beth-dagon
- בית האצל Bêyth hâʼêtsel H1018 Beth-ezel
- בית הגלגל Bêyth hag-Gilgâl H1019 Beth-gilgal
- בית הישימות Bêyth ha-Yshîy-môwth H1020 Beth-jesimoth
- בית הכרם Bêyth hak-Kerem H1021 Beth-haccerem
- בית המרחק Bêyth ham-Merchâq H1023 Beth Ham-merchaq
- בית המרכבות Bêyth ham-Markâbôwth H1024 Beth-marcaboth
- בית העמק Bêyth hâ-ʻÊmeq H1025 Beth-emek
- בית הערבה Bêyth hâ-ʻĂrâbâh H1026 Beth-arabah
- בית הרם Bêyth hâ-Râm H1027 Beth-aram
- בית השטה Bêyth hash-Shiṭṭâh H1029 Beth-shittah
- בית חגלה Bêyth Choglâh H1031 Beth-hoglah
- בית חורון Bêyth Chôwrôwn H1032 Beth-horon
- בית כר Bêyth Kar H1033 Beth-car
+20 more proper names from this root (not shown).
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Beth-aven). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
House of nothingness; i.e., "of idols", a place in the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Josh. 7:2; 18:12; 1 Sam. 13:5). In Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 it stands for "Bethel" (q.v.), and it is so called because it was no longer the "house of God," but "the house of idols," referring to the calves there worshipped.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(house of nothingness, i.e. of idols), a place on the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel, (Joshua 7:2; 18:12) and lying between that place and Michmash. (1 Samuel 13:5; 14:28) In (Hosea 4:15; 5:8; 10:5) the name is transferred to the neighboring Bethel,--once the "house of God" but then the house of idols of "naught."
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the house of vanity; of iniquity of trouble
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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