1) vapour, breath 1a) breath, vapour 1b) vanity (fig.) adv 2) vainly
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H1892 — הֶ֫בֶל
he.vel · vanity · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Deuteronomy 32:21 · בְּהַבְלֵיהֶ֑םThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.1 Kings 16:13 · בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.1 Kings 16:26 · בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.2 Kings 17:15 · הַהֶ֙בֶל֙And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.Job 7:16 · הֶ֥בֶלI loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.Job 9:29 · הֶ֣בֶלI shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?Job 21:34 · הָ֑בֶלHow then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?Job 27:12 · הֶ֣בֶלBehold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?Job 35:16 · הֶ֣בֶלTherefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.Psalm 31:6 · הַבְלֵי־I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.Psalm 39:5 · הֶ֥בֶלBehold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [SelahPsalm 39:6 · הֶ֥בֶלSurely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.Psalm 39:11 · הֶ֖בֶלWhen thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity.[SelahPsalm 62:9 · הֶ֥בֶל · מֵהֶ֥בֶלSurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.Psalm 78:33 · בַּהֶ֥בֶלTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.Psalm 94:11 · הָֽבֶל׃Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.Psalm 144:4 · לַהֶ֣בֶלMan is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.Proverbs 13:11 · מֵהֶ֣בֶלWealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.Proverbs 21:6 · הֶ֥בֶלThe getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.Proverbs 31:30 · וְהֶ֣בֶלGrace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.Ecclesiastes 1:2 · הֲבֵ֤ל · הֲבָלִים֙ · הֲבֵ֥ל · הֲבָלִ֖ים · הָֽבֶל׃Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.Ecclesiastes 1:14 · הֶ֖בֶלI have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 2:1 · הָֽבֶל׃I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:11 · הֶ֙בֶל֙Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:15 · הָֽבֶל׃Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:17 · הֶ֖בֶלSo I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 2:19 · הָֽבֶל׃And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:21 · הֶ֖בֶלFor there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:23 · הֶ֥בֶלFor all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:26 · הֶ֖בֶלFor to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 3:19 · הָֽבֶל׃For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.Ecclesiastes 4:4 · הֶ֖בֶלThen I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 4:7 · הֶ֖בֶלThen I returned and saw vanity under the sun.Ecclesiastes 4:8 · הֶ֛בֶלThere is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.Ecclesiastes 4:16 · הֶ֖בֶלThere was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 5:7 · וַהֲבָלִ֔יםFor in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.Ecclesiastes 5:10 · הָֽבֶל׃He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2 · הֶ֛בֶלa man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.Ecclesiastes 6:4 · בַהֶ֥בֶלfor it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;Ecclesiastes 6:9 · הֶ֖בֶלBetter is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.Ecclesiastes 6:11 · הָ֑בֶלSeeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?Ecclesiastes 6:12 · הֶבְל֖וֹFor who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 7:6 · הָֽבֶל׃For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 7:15 · הֶבְלִ֑יAll this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.Ecclesiastes 8:10 · הָֽבֶל׃So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 8:14 · הֶבֶל֮ · הָֽבֶל׃There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 9:9 · הֶבְלֶ֔ךָ · הֶבְלֶ֑ךָLive joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.Ecclesiastes 11:8 · הָֽבֶל׃Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.Ecclesiastes 11:10 · הָֽבֶל׃Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.Ecclesiastes 12:8 · הֲבֵ֧ל · הֲבָלִ֛ים · הָֽבֶל׃Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.Isaiah 30:7 · הֶ֥בֶלFor Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.Isaiah 49:4 · וְהֶ֖בֶלBut I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.Isaiah 57:13 · הָ֑בֶלWhen thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.Jeremiah 2:5 · הַהֶ֖בֶלThus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?Jeremiah 8:19 · בְּהַבְלֵ֥יBehold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?Jeremiah 10:3 · הֶ֣בֶלFor the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.Jeremiah 10:8 · הֲבָלִ֖יםBut they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.Jeremiah 10:15 · הֶ֣בֶלThey are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.Jeremiah 14:22 · בְּהַבְלֵ֤יAre there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.Jeremiah 16:19 · הֶ֖בֶלO Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.Jeremiah 51:18 · הֶ֣בֶלThey are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.Lamentations 4:17 · הָ֑בֶלOur eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.Jonah 2:8 · הַבְלֵי־They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.Zechariah 10:2 · הֶ֖בֶלFor the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.