ματαιότης, -ητος, ἡ (μάταιος), [in LXX for הֶבֶל, Psa.31:6 39:5 62:9, al., and nearly 40 times in Ec; for שָׁוְא, Psa.25:4, al.; רִיק, etc. ;] vanity, emptiness, frailty, folly: Rom.8:20, 2Pe.2:18; τ. νοός, Eph.4:17 (elsewhere only in Pollux, 6, 134, and Eccl.).† (AS)
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G3153 — ματαιότης
mataiotēs · futility · Greek
3 tagged verse occurrences
Romans 8:20 · ματαιότητιFor the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hopeEphesians 4:17 · ματαιότητιThis I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,2 Peter 2:18 · ματαιότητοςFor, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;