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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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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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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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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