שָׁוְאshâvᵉʼ
emptiness, vanity
Pronunciation: shawv · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7723
Meanings
1. emptiness, nothingness, vanity (Psalms 60:13; Psalms 108:13; Psalms 127:2)
2. emptiness of speech, || lying (Proverbs 30:8; Psalms 12:3; Psalms 41:7)
3. worthlessness, of conduct (Psalms 26:4; Job 11:11; Isaiah 5:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 53 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 20:7 “You must not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.
- Exodus 23:1 “You must not pass along false rumors. You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stand.
- Deuteronomy 5:11 “You must not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.
- Deuteronomy 5:20 “You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.
- Job 7:3 I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
- Job 11:11 For he knows those who are false, and he takes note of all their sins.
See every passage
- Exodus 20:7, 23:1
- Deuteronomy 5:11, 5:20
- Job 7:3, 11:11, 15:31, 31:5, 35:13
- Psalms 12:2, 24:4, 26:4, 31:6, 41:6, 60:11, 89:47, 108:12, 119:37, 127:1, 127:2, 139:20, 144:8, 144:11
- Proverbs 30:8
- Isaiah 1:13, 5:18, 30:28, 59:4
- Jeremiah 2:30, 4:30, 6:29, 18:15, 46:11
- Lamentations 2:14
- Ezekiel 12:24, 13:6, 13:7, 13:8, 13:9, 13:23, 21:23, 21:29, 22:28
- Hosea 10:4, 12:11
- Jonah 2:8
- Zechariah 10:2
- Malachi 3:14
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).