: 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‘Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.Exodus 23:1 · שָׁ֑וְא‘Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.Deuteronomy 5:11 · לַשָּׁ֑וְא · לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ ס‘Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.Deuteronomy 5:20 · שָֽׁוְא׃ ס‘Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour—a false testimony.Job 7:3 · שָׁ֑וְאSo I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.Job 11:11 · שָׁ֑וְאFor he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider it!Job 15:31 · בַּשָּׁ֣יו · שָׁ֝֗וְאLet him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.Job 31:5 · שָׁ֑וְאIf I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,Job 35:13 · שָׁ֭וְאSurely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.Psalm 12:2 · שָׁ֤וְא׀Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.Psalm 24:4 · לַשָּׁ֣וְאThe clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.Psalm 26:4 · שָׁ֑וְאI have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.Psalm 31:6 · שָׁ֑וְאI have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.Psalm 41:6 · שָׁ֤וְאAnd if he came to see—vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out—at the street he speaketh.Psalm 60:11 · וְ֝שָׁ֗וְאGive to us help from adversity, And vain is the deliverance of man.Psalm 89:47 · שָּׁ֝֗וְאRemember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?Psalm 108:12 · וְ֝שָׁ֗וְאGive to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.Psalm 119:37 · שָׁ֑וְאRemove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.Psalm 127:1 · שָׁ֤וְא׀ · שָׁ֤וְא׀A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.Psalm 127:2 · שָׁ֤וְאVain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.Psalm 139:20 · לַשָּׁ֣וְאWho exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity are Thine enemies.Psalm 144:8 · שָׁ֑וְאBecause their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.Psalm 144:11 · שָׁ֑וְאFree me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,Proverbs 30:8 · שָׁ֤וְא׀Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,Isaiah 1:13 · שָׁ֔וְאAdd not to bring in a vain present, Incense—an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity—and a restraint!Isaiah 5:18 · הַשָּׁ֑וְאWoe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as with thick ropes of the cart—sin.Isaiah 30:28 · שָׁ֑וְאAnd His breath is as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, Is on the jaws of the peoples.Isaiah 59:4 · שָׁ֔וְאThere is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.Jeremiah 2:30 · לַשָּׁוְא֙In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.Jeremiah 4:30 · לַשָּׁ֖וְאAnd thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself with ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.Jeremiah 6:29 · לַשָּׁוְא֙The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.Jeremiah 18:15 · לַשָּׁ֣וְאBut My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways—paths of old, To walk in paths—a way not raised up,Jeremiah 46:11 · לַשָּׁוְא֙Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.Lamentations 2:14 · שָׁ֣וְא · שָׁ֖וְאThy prophets have seen for thee a false and insipid thing, And have not revealed concerning thine iniquity, To turn back thy captivity, And they see for thee false burdens and causes of expulsion.Hosea 10:4 · שָׁ֖וְאThey have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.Hosea 12:11 · שָׁ֣וְאSurely Gilead is iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars are as heaps, on the furrows of a field.Jonah 2:8 · שָׁ֑וְאThose observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.Zechariah 10:2 · הַשָּׁ֣ואBecause 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.Malachi 3:14 · שָׁ֖וְאYe have said, ‘A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?