Strong’s H205 · Hebrew
אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
Origin from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught);
Meaning strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
In the King James Version affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare אַיִן (H369).
In 78 verses of the King James Version
1–50 of 78
- Numbers 23:21He 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.
- Deuteronomy 26:14I 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.
- 1 Samuel 15:23For 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.
- Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- Job 5:6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- Job 11:11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Job 11:14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Job 21:19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
- Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Job 34:8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Job 34:36My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
- Job 36:10He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- Job 36:21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- Psalms 5:5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- Psalms 7:14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- Psalms 28:3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Psalms 36:4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
- Psalms 36:12There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
- Psalms 41:6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
- Psalms 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
- Psalms 55:10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
- Psalms 56:7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- Psalms 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
- Psalms 59:5Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
- Psalms 64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- Psalms 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
- Psalms 90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
- Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Psalms 92:9For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
- Psalms 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
- Psalms 94:16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
- Psalms 94:23And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
- Psalms 101:8I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
- Psalms 119:133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
- Psalms 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- Psalms 141:4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
- Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 6:12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
- Proverbs 6:18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- Proverbs 10:29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 11:7When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
- Proverbs 12:21There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.