Strong's #3153: mataiotes (pronounced mat-ah-yot'-ace)

from 3152; inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity:--vanity.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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mataiotēs

1) what is devoid of truth and appropriateness

2) perverseness, depravity

3) frailty, want of vigour

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G3152

Citing in TDNT: 4:523, 571

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Romans 8:20: "the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of"
Ephesians 4:17: "other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,"
2 Peter 2:18: "For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh,"