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Ivah

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

An Assyrian city, possibly Hit

(2 Kings 18:34; 19:13³⁴Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? (2 Kings 18:34)
¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? (2 Kings 19:13)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

District or city that had been conquered by Assyria (2 Kings 18:34³⁴Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? (2 Kings 18:34); 2 Kings 19:13¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? (2 Kings 19:13); Isa. 37:13¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? (Isaiah 37:13)). Supposed to be the same as AVA in 2 Kings 17:24,²⁴And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. (2 Kings 17:24) and AHAVA in Ezra 8:15,21¹⁵And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi. (Ezra 8:15)
²¹Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. (Ezra 8:21).

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

he is a perverter