שָׁוְא

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

• vanity: vain H7723H · a Meaning of 27
• vanity: false H7723G 26

Strong's dictionary

or שַׁו; from the same as שׁוֹא in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain); false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. Ezekiel 12:24 שָׁ֖וְא shav' · A person, place or thing

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

2. Ezekiel 13:6 שָׁוְא֙ shaV' · A person, place or thing

   They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

3. Ezekiel 13:7 שָׁוְא֙ shaV' · A person, place or thing

   Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?

4. Ezekiel 13:8 שָׁ֔וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

   Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

5. Ezekiel 13:9 שָׁוְא֮ shaV' · A person, place or thing

   And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council 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 Jehovah.

6. Ezekiel 13:23 שָׁ֚וְא Shav.' · A person, place or thing

   therefore ye shall no more see false visions, nor divine divinations: and I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

7. Ezekiel 21:23 שָׁוְא֙ shaV' · A person, place or thing

   And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.

8. Ezekiel 21:29 שָׁ֔וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

   while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

9. Ezekiel 22:28 שָׁ֔וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

   And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.