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av´a עויא , ‛awwā' ; the King James Version Ava , ā´va : A province, the people of which Shalmaneser king of Assyria placed in the cities of Samaria in the room of the children of Israel taken into exile by him (2 Kings 17:24 ). It is probably the same as Ivva (2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13; Isaiah 37:13 ), a province conquered by Assyria.

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Avva'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/a/avva.html. 1915.

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