AVVA

(Avʹva) [ruin].

A town on the Orontes River S of Hamath in northern Syria, under the control of Assyria in the eighth century B.C.E. Apparently the same as Ivvah. (2 Ki. 17:24; 18:34; 19:13; Isa. 37:13; see AVVITES.) Some authorities identify it with Tell Kefr ʽAya near Riblah.