Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1892
הֶ֫בֶל
he.vel · “vanity”
Used 73 times across 12 books
Definition
1) vapour, breath
1a) breath, vapour
1b) vanity (fig.)
adv
2) vainly
1a) breath, vapour
1b) vanity (fig.)
adv
2) vainly
Where it appears
Deuteronomy1
1 Kings2
2 Kings1
Job5
Psalms9
Proverbs3
Ecclesiastes38
Isaiah3
Jeremiah8
Lamentations1
Jonah1
Zechariah1
In the text
Deuteronomy 32:21They 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 16:13For 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 16:26For 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 17:15And 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 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.Job 9:29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
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