HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5755
עַוָּה
iv.vah — Ivvah
Ava or Ivah = "ruin" a city conquered by the Assyrians Also named: av.vim (עַוִּים "Avvite" H5761I)
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Ivah
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5757
עַוִּי
av.vi — Avites
Avite = "perverters" inhabitants of Ava or Ivah Another spelling of iv.vah (עַוָּה "Ivvah" H5755)
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Overturning, a city of the Assyrians, whence colonists were brought to Samaria (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13). It lay on the Euphrates, between Sepharvaim and Henah, and is supposed by some to have been the Ahava of Ezra (8:15).
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.