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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

שָׁוְא

H7723 · shâvᵉʼ · shawv · Hebrew

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Strong’s definition

evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)

KJV usage

false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

53mapped occurrences
48verses
6KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

vain 22vanity 22false 5lying 2lies 1falsely 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Exodus 20:7Mapped KJV word: vain

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Exodus 20:7Mapped KJV word: vain

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Exodus 23:1Mapped KJV word: false

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Deuteronomy 5:11Mapped KJV word: vain

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:11Mapped KJV word: vain

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:20Mapped KJV word: false

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Job 7:3Mapped KJV word: vanity

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Job 11:11Mapped KJV word: vain

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

Job 15:31Mapped KJV word: vanity

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

Job 15:31Mapped KJV word: vanity

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

Job 31:5Mapped KJV word: vanity

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 35:13Mapped KJV word: vanity

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Psalms 12:2Mapped KJV word: vanity

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Psalms 24:4Mapped KJV word: vanity

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalms 26:4Mapped KJV word: vain

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Psalms 31:6Mapped KJV word: lying

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalms 41:6Mapped KJV word: vanity

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Psalms 60:11Mapped KJV word: vain

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Psalms 89:47Mapped KJV word: vain

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

Psalms 108:12Mapped KJV word: vain

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Psalms 119:37Mapped KJV word: vanity

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Psalms 127:1Mapped KJV word: vain

<<A Song of degrees for Solomon.>> Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalms 127:1Mapped KJV word: vain

<<A Song of degrees for Solomon.>> Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalms 127:2Mapped KJV word: vain

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Psalms 139:20Mapped KJV word: vain

For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Psalms 144:8Mapped KJV word: vanity

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalms 144:11Mapped KJV word: vanity

Rid 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 30:8Mapped KJV word: vanity

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Isaiah 1:13Mapped KJV word: vain

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isaiah 5:18Mapped KJV word: vanity

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Isaiah 30:28Mapped KJV word: vanity

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Isaiah 59:4Mapped KJV word: lies

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:30Mapped KJV word: vain

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 4:30Mapped KJV word: vain

And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

Jeremiah 6:29Mapped KJV word: vain

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jeremiah 18:15Mapped KJV word: vanity

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

Jeremiah 46:11Mapped KJV word: vain

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Lamentations 2:14Mapped KJV word: vain

Thy 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.

Lamentations 2:14Mapped KJV word: false

Thy 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 12:24Mapped KJV word: vain

For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 13:6Mapped KJV word: vanity

They 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 13:7Mapped KJV word: vain

Have 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 13:8Mapped KJV word: vanity

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 13:9Mapped KJV word: vanity

And 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 13:23Mapped KJV word: vanity

Therefore 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.

Ezekiel 21:23Mapped KJV word: false

And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

Ezekiel 21:29Mapped KJV word: vanity

Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

Ezekiel 22:28Mapped KJV word: vanity

And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

Hosea 10:4Mapped KJV word: falsely

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 12:11Mapped KJV word: vanity

Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.