שָׁוְא

shav · vanity: vain

Hebrew · Strong's H7723 · Noun · Sounds like: shawv · 53 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שָׁוְא n.[m.] emptiness, vanity

Every occurrence

  1. Job 7:3 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  2. Job 11:11 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even though he consider it not.

  3. Job 15:31 בַּשָּׁ֣יו ba.shov · A person, place or thing

    Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

  4. Job 15:31 שָׁ֝֗וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

  5. Job 31:5 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

  6. Job 35:13 שָׁ֭וְא Sha.v' · A person, place or thing

    Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.

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