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 made Me zealous by ‘no-god,’ They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by ‘no-people,’ By a foolish nation I make them angry.1 Kings 16:13 · בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃concerning all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.1 Kings 16:26 · בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃and walketh in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.2 Kings 17:15 · הַהֶ֙בֶל֙and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;Job 7:16 · הֶ֥בֶלI have wasted away—not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.Job 9:29 · הֶ֣בֶלI—I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.Job 21:34 · הָ֑בֶלAnd how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?Job 27:12 · הֶ֣בֶלLo, ye—all of you—have seen, And why is this—ye are altogether vain?Job 35:16 · הֶ֣בֶלAnd Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.Psalm 31:6 · הַבְלֵי־I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.Psalm 39:5 · הֶ֥בֶלLo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.Psalm 39:6 · הֶ֥בֶלOnly, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.Psalm 39:11 · הֶ֖בֶלWith reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.Psalm 62:9 · הֶ֥בֶל · מֵהֶ֥בֶלOnly—vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.Psalm 78:33 · בַּהֶ֥בֶלAnd He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.Psalm 94:11 · הָֽבֶל׃He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.Psalm 144:4 · לַהֶ֣בֶלMan to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.Proverbs 13:11 · מֵהֶ֣בֶלWealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.Proverbs 21:6 · הֶ֥בֶלThe making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.Proverbs 31:30 · וְהֶ֣בֶלThe grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.Ecclesiastes 1:2 · הֲבֵ֤ל · הֲבָלִים֙ · הֲבֵ֥ל · הֲבָלִ֖ים · הָֽבֶל׃Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.Ecclesiastes 1:14 · הֶ֖בֶלI have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!Ecclesiastes 2:1 · הָֽבֶל׃I said in my heart, ‘Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;’ and lo, even it is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:11 · הֶ֙בֶל֙and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!Ecclesiastes 2:15 · הָֽבֶל׃and I said in my heart, ‘As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?’ And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:Ecclesiastes 2:17 · הֶ֖בֶלAnd I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:19 · הָֽבֶל׃And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:21 · הֶ֖בֶלFor there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it—his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:23 · הֶ֥בֶלFor all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:26 · הֶ֖בֶלFor to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 3:19 · הָֽבֶל׃For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.Ecclesiastes 4:4 · הֶ֖בֶלAnd I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 4:7 · הֶ֖בֶלAnd I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:Ecclesiastes 4:8 · הֶ֛בֶלThere is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, ‘For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?’ This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.Ecclesiastes 4:16 · הֶ֖בֶלthere is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 5:7 · וַהֲבָלִ֔יםFor, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.Ecclesiastes 5:10 · הָֽבֶל׃Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2 · הֶ֛בֶלA man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.Ecclesiastes 6:4 · בַהֶ֥בֶלFor in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,Ecclesiastes 6:9 · הֶ֖בֶלBetter is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 6:11 · הָ֑בֶלFor there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?Ecclesiastes 6:12 · הֶבְל֖וֹFor who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 7:6 · הָֽבֶל׃For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.Ecclesiastes 7:15 · הֶבְלִ֑יThe whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.Ecclesiastes 8:10 · הָֽבֶל׃And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 8:14 · הֶבֶל֮ · הָֽבֶל׃There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 9:9 · הֶבְלֶ֔ךָ · הֶבְלֶ֑ךָSee life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.Ecclesiastes 11:8 · הָֽבֶל׃But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming is vanity.Ecclesiastes 11:10 · הָֽבֶל׃And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!Ecclesiastes 12:8 · הֲבֵ֧ל · הֲבָלִ֛ים · הָֽבֶל׃Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.Isaiah 30:7 · הֶ֥בֶלYea, Egyptians are vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: ‘Their strength is to sit still.’Isaiah 49:4 · וְהֶ֖בֶלAnd I said, ‘For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.Isaiah 57:13 · הָ֑בֶלWhen thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy mountain.Jeremiah 2:5 · הַהֶ֖בֶלThus said Jehovah: What—have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,Jeremiah 8:19 · בְּהַבְלֵ֥יLo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?Jeremiah 10:3 · הֶ֣בֶלFor the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,Jeremiah 10:8 · הֲבָלִ֖יםAnd in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.Jeremiah 10:15 · הֶ֣בֶלVanity are they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.Jeremiah 14:22 · בְּהַבְלֵ֤יAre there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou—Thou hast done all these!Jeremiah 16:19 · הֶ֖בֶלO Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.Jeremiah 51:18 · הֶ֣בֶלVanity are they—work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.Lamentations 4:17 · הָ֑בֶלWhile we exist—consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.Jonah 2:8 · הַבְלֵי־Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.Zechariah 10:2 · הֶ֖בֶלBecause the teraphim did speak iniquity, And the diviners have seen a falsehood, And dreams of the vanity they speak, With vanity they give comfort, Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.