Bible Names

Avith: meaning of the name

Avith means “wicked, perverse.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Avith in Hebrew and Greek

עֲוִית H5762

ʻĂvîyth (av-veeth') — Avvith (or Avvoth), a place in Palestine

or perhaps (עַיּוֹת (as if plural of H5857 (עַי)) (עַיוּת; from H5753 (עָוָה); ruin;

Places named Avith

Avith in Scripture

“Avith” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 36:35

    And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:46

    And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.