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Strong's #7723: shav' (pronounced shawv)

or shav {shav}; from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):--false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

shâv' / shav

1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood

1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity

1b) emptiness of speech, lying

1c) worthlessness (of conduct)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating



Usage:

This word is used 53 times:

Exodus 20:7: "the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless"
Exodus 20:7: "taketh his name in vain."
Exodus 23:1: "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with"
Deuteronomy 5:11: "the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless"
Deuteronomy 5:11: "taketh his name in vain."
Deuteronomy 5:20: "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Job 7:3: "So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed"
Job 11:11: "For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not"
Job 15:31: "Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense."
Job 15:31: "trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense."
Job 31:5: "If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"
Job 35:13: "God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard"
Psalms 12:2: "They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart"
Psalms 24:4: "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"
Psalms 31:6: "I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD."
Psalms 41:6: "he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth"
Psalms 60:11: "Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man."
Psalms 89:47: "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: "the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except"
Psalms 127:1: "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:"
Psalms 139:20: "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: "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"
Isaiah 1:13: "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons"
Isaiah 5:18: "unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:"
Isaiah 30:28: "to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,"
Isaiah 59:4: "in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity."
Jeremiah 2:30: " In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword"
Jeremiah 4:30: "thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek"
Jeremiah 6:29: "of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away."
Jeremiah 18:15: "my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths,"
Jeremiah 46:11: "O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured."
Lamentations 2:14: "Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity,"
Lamentations 2:14: "thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment."
Ezekiel 12:24: "no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within"
Ezekiel 13:6: "They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD"
Ezekiel 13:7: "Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say,"
Ezekiel 13:8: "GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold,"
Ezekiel 13:9: "upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be"
Ezekiel 13:23: "ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver"
Ezekiel 21:23: "And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance"
Ezekiel 21:29: "While they see vanity unto thee, while they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain,"
Ezekiel 22:28: "have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus"
Hosea 10:4: "They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up"
Hosea 12:11: "in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea,"









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