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And 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.
Read in context →For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Read in context →33 occurrences in 28 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: 2 Kings 17:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:18
Open full H1892 profile →shâvᵉʼ · shawv
evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
Strong's KJV usage: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Strong's first: Job 7:3Strong's last: Hosea 12:11
Open full H7723 profile →ʼâven · aw-ven'
strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Strong's first: Job 15:35Strong's last: Zechariah 10:2
Open full H205 profile →tôhûw · to'-hoo
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Strong's KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Strong's first: Isaiah 40:17Strong's last: Isaiah 59:4
Open full H8414 profile →mataiótēs · mat-ah-yot'-ace
inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity
Strong's KJV usage: :--vanity.
Strong's first: Romans 8:20Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:18
Open full G3153 profile →rîyq · reek
emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Strong's KJV usage: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.
Strong's first: Psalms 4:2Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:13
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And 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.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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:
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
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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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