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. I will move them to jealousy with those who 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 with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, 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 with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.2 Kings 17:15 · הַהֶ֙בֶל֙They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.Job 7:16 · הֶ֥בֶלI loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.Job 9:29 · הֶ֣בֶלI shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?Job 21:34 · הָ֑בֶלSo how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”Job 27:12 · הֶ֣בֶלBehold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?Job 35:16 · הֶ֣בֶלTherefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”Psalm 31:6 · הַבְלֵי־I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.Psalm 39:5 · הֶ֥בֶלBehold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.Psalm 39:6 · הֶ֥בֶל“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.Psalm 39:11 · הֶ֖בֶלWhen you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.Psalm 62:9 · הֶ֥בֶל · מֵהֶ֥בֶלSurely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.Psalm 78:33 · בַּהֶ֥בֶלTherefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.Psalm 94:11 · הָֽבֶל׃Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.Psalm 144:4 · לַהֶ֣בֶלMan is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.Proverbs 13:11 · מֵהֶ֣בֶלWealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.Proverbs 21:6 · הֶ֥בֶלGetting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.Proverbs 31:30 · וְהֶ֣בֶלCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.Ecclesiastes 1:2 · הֲבֵ֤ל · הֲבָלִים֙ · הֲבֵ֥ל · הֲבָלִ֖ים · הָֽבֶל׃“Vanity of vanities,” says 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 chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 2:1 · הָֽבֶל׃I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:11 · הֶ֙בֶל֙Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:15 · הָֽבֶל׃Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:17 · הֶ֖בֶלSo I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 2:19 · הָֽבֶל׃Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:21 · הֶ֖בֶלFor there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:23 · הֶ֥בֶלFor all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:26 · הֶ֖בֶלFor to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 3:19 · הָֽבֶל׃For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.Ecclesiastes 4:4 · הֶ֖בֶלThen I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s 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 who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.Ecclesiastes 4:16 · הֶ֖בֶלThere was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 5:7 · וַהֲבָלִ֔יםFor in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.Ecclesiastes 5:10 · הָֽבֶל׃He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2 · הֶ֛בֶלa man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.Ecclesiastes 6:4 · בַהֶ֥בֶלfor it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name 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 chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 6:11 · הָ֑בֶלFor there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?Ecclesiastes 6:12 · הֶבְל֖וֹFor who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will 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 who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.Ecclesiastes 8:10 · הָֽבֶל׃So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 8:14 · הֶבֶל֮ · הָֽבֶל׃There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 9:9 · הֶבְלֶ֔ךָ · הֶבְלֶ֑ךָLive joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.Ecclesiastes 11:8 · הָֽבֶל׃Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.Ecclesiastes 11:10 · הָֽבֶל׃Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.Ecclesiastes 12:8 · הֲבֵ֧ל · הֲבָלִ֛ים · הָֽבֶל׃“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”Isaiah 30:7 · הֶ֥בֶלFor Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.Isaiah 49:4 · וְהֶ֖בֶלBut I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”Isaiah 57:13 · הָ֑בֶלWhen you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.”Jeremiah 2:5 · הַהֶ֖בֶלThus says Yahweh, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have 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: isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?Jeremiah 10:3 · הֶ֣בֶלFor the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts 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 sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.Jeremiah 16:19 · הֶ֖בֶלYahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which 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 still fail, looking in vain for our help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.Jonah 2:8 · הַבְלֵי־Those who 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 oppressed, because there is no shepherd.