Aven: meaning of the name
Aven means “iniquity; force; riches; sorrow.”
Places named Aven
Aven in Scripture
“Aven” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.
- Ezekiel 30:17
The young men of Aven and of Pi–beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
- Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
- Amos 1:5
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.