Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H205
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- 'aven
- Pronunciation
- aw-ven'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H205
- Brief meaning
- To come to naught), strictly nothingness, also trouble. vanity, wickedness, specifically an idol
- Source renderings
- affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369
- Root word
- from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain
- Full definition from the source
- To come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol. Root word: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H369
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
View the 1890 print witnessView preserved source wording
00205\ 205 'aven 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 369. see HEBREW for 0369