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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 JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Deuteronomy 32:21

    They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.

    בְּהַבְלֵיהֶ֑ם (הַבְלֵי) hav.lei. “vanities”

  2. 1 Kings 16:13

    for all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, with their vanities.

    בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃ (הַבְלֵי) hav.lei. “vanities”

  3. 1 Kings 16:26

    For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, with their vanities.

    בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃ (הַבְלֵי) hav.lei. “vanities”

  4. 2 Kings 17:15

    and they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies wherewith He testified against them; and they went after things of nought, and became nought, and after the nations that were round about them, concerni

    הַהֶ֙בֶל֙ (הֶ֙בֶל֙) He.vel “vanity”

  5. Job 7:16

    I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

    הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “[are] a breath”

  6. Job 9:29

    I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

    הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “vanity”

  7. Job 21:34

    How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

    הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “vanity”

  8. Job 27:12

    Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?

    הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “vanity”

  9. Job 35:16

    But Job doth open his mouth in vanity; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

    הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “vanity”

  10. Psalms 31:7

    I hate them that regard lying vanities; but I trust in the LORD.

    הַבְלֵי־ hav.lei- “vanities of”

  11. Psalms 39:6

    Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

    הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “vanity”

  12. Psalms 39:7

    Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity they are in turmoil; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

    הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “vanity”

  13. Psalms 39:12

    With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Selah

    הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “vanity”

  14. Psalms 62:10

    Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.

    הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “[are] a breath”מֵהֶ֥בֶל (הֶ֥בֶל) He.vel “a breath”

  15. Psalms 78:33

    Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.

    בַּהֶ֥בֶל (הֶ֥בֶל) He.vel “futility”

  16. Psalms 94:11

    The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

    הָֽבֶל׃ Ha.vel “[are] a breath”

  17. Psalms 144:4

    Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

    לַהֶ֣בֶל (הֶ֣בֶל) He.vel “breath”

  18. Proverbs 13:11

    Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth little by little shall increase.

    מֵהֶ֣בֶל (הֶ֣בֶל) He.vel “vanity”

  19. Proverbs 21:6

    The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

    הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “[is] a breath”

  20. Proverbs 31:30

    Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

    וְהֶ֣בֶל (הֶ֣בֶל) He.vel “[is] vanity”

  21. Ecclesiastes 1:2

    Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

    הֲבֵ֤ל ha.Vel “futility of”הֲבָלִים֙ ha.va.Lim “futilities”הֲבֵ֥ל ha.Vel “futility of”הֲבָלִ֖ים ha.va.Lim “futilities”הָֽבֶל׃ Ha.vel “[is] futility”

  22. Ecclesiastes 1:14

    I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “[is] futility”

  23. Ecclesiastes 2:1

    I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.

    הָֽבֶל׃ Ha.vel “[was] futility”

  24. Ecclesiastes 2:11

    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    הֶ֙בֶל֙ he.vel “[was] futility”

  25. Ecclesiastes 2:15

    Then said I in my heart: 'As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

    הָֽבֶל׃ Ha.vel “[is] futility”