Limitless Word
אָוֶןʼâven/aw-ven'/
HebrewH20578 occurrences (KJV)

strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol

KJV renders it: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare H369 (אַיִן).

Where it appears

  • Num 23:21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
  • Deut 26:14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
  • 1 Sam 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
  • Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
  • Job 5:6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
  • Job 11:11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
  • Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
  • Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
  • Job 21:19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
  • Job 22:15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
  • Job 31:3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
  • Job 34:8Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
  • Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  • Job 34:36I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
  • Job 36:10He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
  • Job 36:21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
  • Ps 5:5The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
  • Ps 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
  • Ps 7:14Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
  • Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
  • Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
  • Ps 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
  • Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
  • Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
  • Ps 36:12There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
  • Ps 41:6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
  • Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
  • Ps 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
  • Ps 55:10Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
  • Ps 56:7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
  • Ps 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
  • Ps 59:5You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
  • Ps 64:2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
  • Ps 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
  • Ps 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
  • Ps 92:9For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
  • Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
  • Ps 94:16Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
  • Ps 94:23He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
  • Ps 101:8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
  • Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
  • Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
  • Ps 141:4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
  • Ps 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 6:12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
  • Prov 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
  • Prov 10:29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 11:7When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.
  • Prov 12:21No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
  • Prov 17:4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
  • Prov 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
  • Prov 21:15It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
  • Prov 30:20“So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
  • Isa 1:13Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.
  • Isa 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
  • Isa 29:20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —
  • Isa 31:2Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
  • Isa 32:6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
  • Isa 41:29Behold, all of them, their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
  • Isa 58:9Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
  • Isa 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
  • Isa 59:6Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
  • Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Isa 66:3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
  • Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 4:15For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
  • Ezek 11:2He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
  • Hos 6:8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
  • Hos 9:4They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
  • Hos 12:11If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
  • Amos 5:5but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
  • Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Hab 1:3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
  • Hab 3:7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
  • Zech 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.