Where was Beth-aven?

House of nothingness; i. e., “of idols”, a place in the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Josh. 7:2; 18:12; 1 Sam. 13:5). In Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 it stands for “Bethel”. Modern identification: Beitin.

Beth-aven is represented in the local geography layer as Beitin. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Hosea 4:15 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 3 verse references collected into the glossary index.