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Strong's #7387: reyqam (pronounced ray-kawm')

from 7386; emptily; figuratively (objective) ineffectually, (subjective) undeservedly:--without cause, empty, in vain, void.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

rêyqâm

1) vainly, emptily

1a) in empty condition, empty, emptily

1b) in vain, without effect, vainly

Part of Speech: adverb

Relation: from H7386



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Genesis 31:42: "with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction"
Exodus 3:21: "ye go, ye shall not go empty:"
Exodus 23:15: "from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)"
Exodus 34:20: "And none shall appear before me empty."
Deuteronomy 15:13: "from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:"
Deuteronomy 16:16: "before the LORD empty:"
Ruth 1:21: "full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD"
Ruth 3:17: "to me, Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law."
1 Samuel 6:3: "of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering:"
2 Samuel 1:22: "back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty."
Job 22:9: "Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken."
Psalms 7:4: "evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)"
Psalms 25:3: "that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause."
Isaiah 55:11: "out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish"
Jeremiah 14:3: "water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads."
Jeremiah 50:9: "their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain."









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