Bible Names

Ava: meaning of the name

Ava means “or Ivah, iniquity.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ava in Hebrew and Greek

עִוָּה H5755

ʻIvvâh (iv-vaw') — Ivvah or Avva, a region of Assyria

or עַוָּא; (2 Kings 17:24), for H5754 (עַוָּה);

Ava in Scripture

“Ava” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 17:24

    And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.