AVVA ăv’ ə (עַוָּ֤א, LXX Αια), KJV AVA. A city conquered in the 8th cent. b.c. by Sargon of Assyria (2 Kings 17:24). It is almost certainly identical with Ivvah (q.v.). The consonantal text gives ’wh in both cases, the variation between a (’awwâ) and i (’iwwâ) being a later Masoretic interpretation. Though various suggestions have been made, the site, prob. in Syria, is unidentified.

Bibliography J. A. Montgomery, The Book of Kings, ICC (1951), 472.