Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H7385: רִיק

rîyq · pronounced reek · “vain”

Definition

emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain

KJV translates it as: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.

Word origin: from H7324 (רוּק);

Extended definition

emptiness, vanity, empty, idle, vain

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H7385 is translated

  • emptiness ×7
  • vanity ×5

Bible verses with H7385 (rîyq)

Rîyq appears in 12 verses.

  • Leviticus 26:16

    I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

  • Leviticus 26:20

    And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

  • Job 39:16

    She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

  • Psalms 2:1

    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

  • Psalms 4:2

    O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

  • Psalms 73:13

    Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

  • Isaiah 30:7

    For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

  • Isaiah 49:4

    Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

  • Isaiah 65:23

    They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

  • Jeremiah 51:34

    Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

  • Jeremiah 51:58

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

  • Habakkuk 2:13

    Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?