Strong's #1892: hebel (pronounced heh'bel)
or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}; from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb:--X altogether, vain, vanity.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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hebel / hăbêl
1) vapour, breath
1a) breath, vapour
1b) vanity (figuratively)
2) vainly
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H1891
Usage:
This word is used 73 times:
Ecclesiastes 8:14: "There is a vanity which is done upon that there be"
Ecclesiastes 8:14: "whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "thou lovest the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion"
Ecclesiastes 11:8: "many. All that cometh is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 11:10: "for childhood and youth are vanity."
Ecclesiastes 12:8: " Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all"
Ecclesiastes 12:8: "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all"
Ecclesiastes 12:8: "saith the preacher; all is vanity."
Isaiah 30:7: "For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore concerning this, Their strength"
Isaiah 49:4: "I have spent for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD,"
Isaiah 57:13: "deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust"
Jeremiah 2:5: "from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?"
Jeremiah 8:19: "in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?"
Jeremiah 10:3: "For the customs of the people are vain: for a tree out of the forest,"
Jeremiah 10:8: "and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities."
Jeremiah 10:15: "They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time they shall perish."
Jeremiah 14:22: "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or give showers?"
Jeremiah 16:19: "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."
Jeremiah 51:18: "They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time they shall perish."
Lamentations 4:17: "as yet failed for our vain in our watching we have watched for"
Jonah 2:8: "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."
Zechariah 10:2: "false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as"
