Strong's Hebrew · H1892
הֶבֶל
hebel · heh'bel
Definitionemptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Derivationor (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from H1891 (הָבַל);
KJV usage[idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.
Occurrences73 in the KJV · 64 verses
הֶבֶל in Scripture
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
1 Kings 16:13
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:26
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Job 7:16
I loathe it ; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 21:34
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it ; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Psalms 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches , and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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