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 which 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, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD 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 sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD 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 against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.Job 7:16 · הֶ֥בֶלI loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.Job 9:29 · הֶ֣בֶל[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?Job 21:34 · הָ֑בֶלHow then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?Job 27:12 · הֶ֣בֶלBehold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?Job 35:16 · הֶ֣בֶלTherefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.Psalm 31:6 · הַבְלֵי־I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.Psalm 39:5 · הֶ֥בֶלBehold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.Psalm 39:6 · הֶ֥בֶלSurely every man walketh in a vain shew: 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. Selah.Psalm 62:9 · הֶ֥בֶל · מֵהֶ֥בֶלSurely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.Psalm 78:33 · בַּהֶ֥בֶלTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.Psalm 94:11 · הָֽבֶל׃The LORD 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 labour shall increase.Proverbs 21:6 · הֶ֥בֶלThe getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.Proverbs 31:30 · וְהֶ֣בֶלFavour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, 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 vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:1 · הָֽבֶל׃I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:11 · הֶ֙בֶל֙Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, 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 it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:17 · הֶ֖בֶלTherefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:19 · הָֽבֶל׃And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:21 · הֶ֖בֶלFor there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:23 · הֶ֥בֶלFor all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:26 · הֶ֖בֶלFor [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight 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 is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.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; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.Ecclesiastes 4:4 · הֶ֖בֶלAgain, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 4:7 · הֶ֖בֶלThen I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.Ecclesiastes 4:8 · הֶ֛בֶלThere is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.Ecclesiastes 4:16 · הֶ֖בֶל[There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 5:7 · וַהֲבָלִ֔יםFor in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: 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 [is] also vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2 · הֶ֛בֶלA man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.Ecclesiastes 6:4 · בַהֶ֥בֶלFor he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.Ecclesiastes 6:9 · הֶ֖בֶלBetter [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 6:11 · הָ֑בֶלSeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?Ecclesiastes 6:12 · הֶבְל֖וֹFor who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] 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 [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.Ecclesiastes 8:10 · הָֽבֶל׃And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.Ecclesiastes 8:14 · הֶבֶל֮ · הָֽבֶל׃There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be 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 the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.Ecclesiastes 11:8 · הָֽבֶל׃But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet 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 childhood and youth [are] vanity.Ecclesiastes 12:8 · הֲבֵ֧ל · הֲבָלִ֛ים · הָֽבֶל׃Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.Isaiah 30:7 · הֶ֥בֶלFor the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.Isaiah 49:4 · וְהֶ֖בֶלThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with my God.Isaiah 57:13 · הָ֑בֶלWhen thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;Jeremiah 2:5 · הַהֶ֖בֶלThus saith the LORD, What iniquity 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 because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?Jeremiah 10:3 · הֶ֣בֶלFor the customs of the people [are] vain: 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 altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.Jeremiah 10:15 · הֶ֣בֶלThey [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.Jeremiah 14:22 · בְּהַבְלֵ֤יAre there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].Jeremiah 16:19 · הֶ֖בֶלO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.Jeremiah 51:18 · הֶ֣בֶלThey [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.Lamentations 4:17 · הָ֑בֶלAs for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].Jonah 2:8 · הַבְלֵי־They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.Zechariah 10:2 · הֶ֖בֶלFor the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.