Strong H7723H7723Gשָׁוְא
vanity: false
One of the 2 senses of Strong H7723
- Transliteration
- shâv' shav
- Pronunciation
- {shawv} shav
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
: false
1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood
1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity
1b) emptiness of speech, lying
1c) worthlessness (of conduct)
Also means: shav (שָׁוְא ": vain" H7723H)
1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood
1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity
1b) emptiness of speech, lying
1c) worthlessness (of conduct)
Also means: shav (שָׁוְא ": vain" H7723H)
General definition
From the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating;
evil (as {destructive }) literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as {false} subjectively)6
uselessness (as {deceptive} objectively; also adverbially in vain): - false ({-ly}) {lie} {lying} {vain} vanity.
evil (as {destructive }) literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as {false} subjectively)6
uselessness (as {deceptive} objectively; also adverbially in vain): - false ({-ly}) {lie} {lying} {vain} vanity.
In the Bible
Strong H7723G appears in 25 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- vanity14
- vain5
- false4
- falsely1
- lie1
- thee1
First verses
- Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Deuteronomy 5:20Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Job 11:11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- Psalms 12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 24:4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Psalms 41:6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- Psalms 144:8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Psalms 144:11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
- Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- Isaiah 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
- Isaiah 59:4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Lamentations 2:14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
- Ezekiel 12:24For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 13:6They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
- Ezekiel 13:7Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
- Ezekiel 13:8Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 13:9And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 13:23Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.