Strong's #1007: Beyth 'Aven (pronounced bayth aw'-ven)

from 1004 and 205; house of vanity; Beth- Aven, a place in Palestine:--Beth-aven.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bêyth 'âven

Beth-aven = "house of vanity"

1) a city east of Bethel, site unknown

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H1004 and H205

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Joshua 7:2: "from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel,"
Joshua 18:12: "westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven."
1 Samuel 13:5: "and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven."
1 Samuel 14:23: "and the battle unto Beth-aven."
Hosea 4:15: "ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth."
Hosea 5:8: "and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, thee, O Benjamin."
Hosea 10:5: "of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people over"