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H1892הֶ֫בֶלhe.vel

vanityPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 2
  12. 1
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 5
  19. 9
  20. 3
  21. 38
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 3
  24. 8
  25. 1
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 1
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

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73 occurrences in 64 verses

With their references and text in World English Bible.

  1. Isaiah 30:7

    For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

    הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “futility”

  2. Isaiah 49:4

    But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [supplied: due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.

    וְהֶ֖בֶל (הֶ֖בֶל) He.vel “futility”

  3. Isaiah 57:13

    When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

    הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “a breath”

  4. Jeremiah 2:5

    thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

    הַהֶ֖בֶל (הֶ֖בֶל) He.vel “vanity”

  5. Jeremiah 8:19

    Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

    בְּהַבְלֵ֥י (הַבְלֵ֥י) hav.Lei “vanities of”

  6. Jeremiah 10:3

    For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

    הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[is] futility”

  7. Jeremiah 10:8

    But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

    הֲבָלִ֖ים ha.va.Lim “futilities”

  8. Jeremiah 10:15

    They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

    הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[are] futility”

  9. Jeremiah 14:22

    Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

    בְּהַבְלֵ֤י (הַבְלֵ֤י) hav.Lei “[the] vanities of”

  10. Jeremiah 16:19

    Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [supplied: even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.

    הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “futility”

  11. Jeremiah 51:18

    They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

    הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[are] futility”

  12. Lamentations 4:17

    Our eyes do yet fail [supplied: in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “futility”

  13. Jonah 2:8

    Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

    הַבְלֵי־ hav.lei- “vanities of”

  14. Zechariah 10:2

    For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

    הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “futility”