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. Exodus 20:7 לַשָּׁ֑וְא la.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

  2. Exodus 20:7 לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ פ la.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

  3. Exodus 23:1 שָׁ֑וְא Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

  4. Deuteronomy 5:11 לַשָּׁ֑וְא la.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

  5. Deuteronomy 5:11 לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ ס la.Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

  6. Deuteronomy 5:20 שָֽׁוְא׃ ס Shav' · A person, place or thing

    Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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

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

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

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

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

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

  17. 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.

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

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

  19. 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!

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

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

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