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
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Malachi 3:14 שָׁ֖וְא shav' · A person, place or thing
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.