Ava

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Ava, in Assyria; colonists thence re. peopled Samaria after the removal of the Israelites ( 2 Kings 17:24). Probably the same as Ivah ( 2 Kings 18:34). The Assyrians according to their usual policy, having conquered Ivah, transplanted its inhabitants to Samaria, vacated by Israel's deportation. (See Ivah .)

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 17:24 2 Kings 18:34 2 Kings 19:13 2 Kings 17:31

Smith's Bible Dictionary

A'va. (Ruin). A place in the empire of Assyria, apparently the same as Ivan.  2 Kings 17:24.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Place subject to Assyria from which colonists were sent to Samaria: possibly the same as AHAVAand IVAH. 2Kings 17:24.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 17:24 Isaiah 37:13

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) Same as Kava.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Avva', עִוָּא , Ruin; Sept. Αουά ,  2 Kings 17:24), also IVAH (Hebrews Ivvah', עִוָּה , same signif.; Sept. Ἀουά ,  2 Kings 18:34;  2 Kings 19:13; but in  Isaiah 37:13, unites with the preceding word, Ἀναεγγουγαυά v. R. Ἀναγουγάυα ) , the capital of a small monarchical state conquered by the Assyrians, and from which King Shalmaneser sent colonies into Samaria. The early Jewish translators (Symmachus and the Targums) understand it as a mere appellative; but it is associated with other proper names as a city. Some take it for the river, or rather the town which gave name to the river Ahava of  Ezra 8:21 (Bellermann, Handbuch, 3, 374); but this name is quite different in the Hebrews ( אְהִוָא ). Iken (Dissertt. Philol. Theolog. p. 152) would identify it with the Phoenician town Avatha, mentioned in the Notitia Vet. Dignitatum Imper. Romans (but the reading here is rather doubtful, see Reland, Palaest. p. 232 sq.); or with the town of Abeje, between Beirut and Sidon, which Paul Lucas mentions as the seat of a Druse prince. Michaelis supposes it to be the land of the Avites between Tripoli and Beirut, because they are described as worshippers of Nibhaz ( 2 Kings 17:31), an idol which he compares with the great stone dog that formerly stood in that quarter, on which account the Lycus obtained its name of Nahr el-Kelb, Dog River (comp. Mannert, VI, 1:380). This, however, rests upon a confusion of the Avim of  2 Kings 17:31, with those of  Deuteronomy 2:23;  Joshua 13:3. (See Avite). Avva or Ivvah was doubtless a city of Mesopotamia, in the region indicated by the associated names (Babylon, Cuth, Hamath, Sepharvaim), perhaps somewhere farther east, in the direction of the classical Aria.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ava ( 2 Kings 17:24), also Ivah ( 2 Kings 18:34;  2 Kings 19:13;  Isaiah 37:13), the capital of a small monarchical state conquered by the Assyrians, and from which king Shalmaneser sent colonies into Samaria. It is most probable that Ava was a Syrian or Mesopotamian town, of which no trace can now be found either in ancient writers or in the Oriental topographers.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Capital of the Burmese empire from 1364 to 1740 and from 1822 to 1835; now in ruins from an earthquake in 1839.