: false 1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood 1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity 1b) emptiness of speech, lying 1c) worthlessness (of conduct) Also means: shav (שָׁוְא ": vain" H7723H)
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H7723 — שָׁוְא
shav · vanity: false · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 20:7 · לַשָּׁ֑וְא · לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ פ“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.Exodus 23:1 · שָׁ֑וְא“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.Deuteronomy 5:11 · לַשָּׁ֑וְא · לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ ס“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.Deuteronomy 5:20 · שָֽׁוְא׃ ס“Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.Job 7:3 · שָׁ֑וְאso am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.Job 11:11 · שָׁ֑וְאFor he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.Job 15:31 · בַּשָּׁ֣יו · שָׁ֝֗וְאLet him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.Job 31:5 · שָׁ֑וְא“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceitJob 35:13 · שָׁ֭וְאSurely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.Psalm 12:2 · שָׁ֤וְא׀Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.Psalm 24:4 · לַשָּׁ֣וְאHe who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.Psalm 26:4 · שָׁ֑וְאI have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.Psalm 31:6 · שָׁ֑וְאI hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.Psalm 41:6 · שָׁ֤וְאIf he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.Psalm 60:11 · וְ֝שָׁ֗וְאGive us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.Psalm 89:47 · שָּׁ֝֗וְאRemember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!Psalm 108:12 · וְ֝שָׁ֗וְאGive us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.Psalm 119:37 · שָׁ֑וְאTurn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.Psalm 127:1 · שָׁ֤וְא׀ · שָׁ֤וְא׀A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.Psalm 127:2 · שָׁ֤וְאIt is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.Psalm 139:20 · לַשָּׁ֣וְאFor they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.Psalm 144:8 · שָׁ֑וְאwhose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.Psalm 144:11 · שָׁ֑וְאRescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.Proverbs 30:8 · שָׁ֤וְא׀Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;Isaiah 1:13 · שָׁ֔וְאBring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.Isaiah 5:18 · הַשָּׁ֑וְאWoe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;Isaiah 30:28 · שָׁ֑וְאHis breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.Isaiah 59:4 · שָׁ֔וְאNone sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Jeremiah 2:30 · לַשָּׁוְא֙“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.Jeremiah 4:30 · לַשָּׁ֖וְאYou, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they seek your life.Jeremiah 6:29 · לַשָּׁוְא֙The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.Jeremiah 18:15 · לַשָּׁ֣וְאFor my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;Jeremiah 46:11 · לַשָּׁוְא֙Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.Lamentations 2:14 · שָׁ֣וְא · שָׁ֖וְאYour prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.Hosea 10:4 · שָׁ֖וְאThey make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.Hosea 12:11 · שָׁ֣וְאIf Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.Jonah 2:8 · שָׁ֑וְאThose who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.Zechariah 10:2 · הַשָּׁ֣ואFor 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.Malachi 3:14 · שָׁ֖וְאYou have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?