Strong's #1891: habal (pronounced haw-bal')

a primitive root; to be vain in act, word, or expectation; specifically to lead astray:--be (become, make) vain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

hâbal

1) to act emptily, become vain, be vain

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to become vain

1a2) to be utterly vain (with cognate acc)

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to cause to become vain

1b2) to fill with vain hopes

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

2 Kings 17:15: "he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that"
Job 27:12: "it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?"
Psalms 62:10: "Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches"
Jeremiah 2:5: "from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?"
Jeremiah 23:16: "the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak"