H7723: שָׁוְא
shâvᵉʼ · pronounced shawv · “vanity: false”
Definition
evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
KJV translates it as: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Word origin: or שַׁו; from the same as H7722 (שׁוֹא) in the sense of desolating;
Extended definition
1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood
1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity
1b) emptiness of speech, lying
1c) worthlessness (of conduct)
Also means: shav (שָׁוְא ": vain" H7723H)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7723 is translated
- falsehood ×17
- worthlessness ×17
- emptiness ×7
- vanity ×7
- is worthlessness ×2
- deceitfulness ×1
- nothingness ×1
- is futility ×1
Bible verses with H7723 (shâvᵉʼ)
Shâvᵉʼ appears in 48 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
- Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Deuteronomy 5:11
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
- Deuteronomy 5:20
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Job 7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- Job 11:11
For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
- Psalms 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 26:4
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Psalms 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
- Psalms 41:6
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- Psalms 60:11
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Psalms 108:12
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- Psalms 119:37
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
- Psalms 127:1
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- Psalms 139:20
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
- Psalms 144:8
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Psalms 144:11
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
- Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.