Strong's H7723

שָׁוְא

Language:: Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)

Definition

evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)

Derivation

or שַׁו; from the same as H7722 (שׁוֹא) in the sense of desolating;

KJV Translation

In the King James Version, שָׁוְא is translated as: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity..

About Strong's Concordance

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.