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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Vanity

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

86exact KJV occurrences 83Old Testament 3New Testament 14books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 86occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

2 Kings 17:15

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.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

2 Peter 2:18

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.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where vanity appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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HebrewH7723
שָׁוְא

shâvᵉʼ · shawv

22 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

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HebrewH205
אָוֶן

ʼâven · aw-ven'

6 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

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GreekG3153
ματαιότης

mataiótēs · mat-ah-yot'-ace

3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity

Strong's KJV usage: :--vanity.

Strong's first: Romans 8:20Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:18

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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86 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Ecclesiastes 7:15
H1892

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:10
H1892

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:14
H1892

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:14
H1892

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
H1892

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
H1892

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:8
H1892

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:10
H1892

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Isaiah 5:18
H7723

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

Isaiah 30:28
H7723

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 40:17
H8414

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 40:23
H8414

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 41:29
H205

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Isaiah 44:9
H8414

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 57:13
H1892

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Isaiah 58:9
H205

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isaiah 59:4
H8414

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

Jeremiah 2:5
H1892

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Jeremiah 10:15
H1892

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 16:19
H1892

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Jeremiah 18:15
H7723

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 51:18
H1892

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Ezekiel 13:6
H7723

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.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

vanity

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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