Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7385
רִיק
riq · “vain”
Used 12 times across 6 books
Definition
emptiness, vanity, empty, idle, vain
Where it appears
Leviticus2
Job1
Psalms3
Isaiah3
Jeremiah2
Habakkuk1
In the text
Leviticus 26:16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.Leviticus 26:20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.Job 39:16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;Psalms 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?Psalms 4:3But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.Psalms 73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.Isaiah 30:7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.Isaiah 49:4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.Isaiah 65:23They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
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