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They 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.
Read in context →And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
Read in context →4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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hebel · heh'bel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Strong's KJV usage: × altogether, vain, vanity.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:21Strong's last: Jonah 2:8
Open full H1892 profile →mátaios · mat'-ah-yos
empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol
Strong's KJV usage: :--vain, vanity.
Strong's first: Acts 14:15Strong's last: Acts 14:15
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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
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VAN'ITY, noun [Latin vanitas, from vanus, vain.]
1. Emptiness; want of substance to satisfy desire; uncertainty; inanity.
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity Ecclesiastes 1:2.
2. Fruitless desire or endeavor.
Vanity possesseth many who are desirous to know the certainty of things to come.
3. Trifling labor that produces no good.
4. Emptiness; untruth
Here I may well show the vanity of what is reported in the story of Walsingham.
5. Empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.
Sin with vanity had fill'd the works of men.
Think not when woman's transient breath is fled, that all her vanities at once are dead; succeeding vanities she still regards.
6. Ostentation; arrogance.
7. Inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride, inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations. Fops cannot be cured of their vanity
Vanity is the food of fools.
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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