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. Psalms 12:2 שָׁ֤וְא׀ shav' · A person, place or thing

    They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

  2. Psalms 24:4 לַשָּׁ֣וְא la.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

  3. Psalms 26:4 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.

  4. Psalms 31:6 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.

  5. Psalms 41:6 שָׁ֤וְא shav' · A person, place or thing

    And if he come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

  6. Psalms 60:11 וְ֝שָׁ֗וְא ve.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

  7. Psalms 89:47 שָּׁ֝֗וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  8. Psalms 108:12 וְ֝שָׁ֗וְא ve.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

  9. Psalms 119:37 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

  10. Psalms 127:1 שָׁ֤וְא׀ shav' · A person, place or thing

    A Song of Ascents; of Solomon. Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

  11. Psalms 127:1 שָׁ֤וְא׀ shav' · A person, place or thing

    A Song of Ascents; of Solomon. Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

  12. Psalms 127:2 שָׁ֤וְא shav' · A person, place or thing

    It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

  13. Psalms 139:20 לַשָּׁ֣וְא la.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.

  14. Psalms 144:8 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  15. Psalms 144:11 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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