Strong H2052 sensesאָ֫וֶן

evil: wickedness · evil: trouble

Transliteration
'âven
Pronunciation
aw'-ven

The 2 senses of Strong H205

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H205 appears in 78 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. evil: wickednessH205G65 verses · 11 books
  2. evil: troubleH205H11 verses · 10 books

General definition

From an unused root perhaps meaning properly to pant (hence to exert {oneself} usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also {trouble} vanity 6
wickedness; specifically an idol : - {affliction} {evil} {false} {idol} {iniquity} {mischief} mourners ({-ing}) {naught} {sorrow} {unjust} {unrighteous} {vain} {vanity} wicked (-ness.) Compare H369 .

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • iniquity46
  • wicked6
  • vanity6
  • affliction3
  • mischief2
  • unrighteous2
  • wickedness2
  • evil1
  • false1
  • idol1
  • let1
  • mourn1

First verses

  1. Numbers 23:21
    He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
  2. Deuteronomy 26:14
    I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
  3. 1 Samuel 15:23
    For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
  4. Job 4:8
    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
  5. Job 5:6
    Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
  6. Job 11:11
    For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
  7. Job 11:14
    If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
  8. Job 15:35
    They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
  9. Job 21:19
    God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
  10. Job 22:15
    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
  11. Job 31:3
    Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
  12. Job 34:8
    Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
  13. Job 34:22
    There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  14. Job 34:36
    My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
  15. Job 36:10
    He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
  16. Job 36:21
    Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
  17. Psalms 5:5
    The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
  18. Psalms 6:8
    Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
  19. Psalms 7:14
    Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  20. Psalms 10:7
    His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.