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H7385רִיקriq

vainPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

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

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12 occurrences in 12 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Leviticus 26:16

    I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall make the eyes to fail, and the soul to languish; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

    לָרִיק֙ (רִיק֙) Rik “emptiness”

  2. Leviticus 26:20

    And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

    לָרִ֖יק (רִ֖יק) Rik “emptiness”

  3. Job 39:16

    She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers; though her labour be in vain, she is without fear;

    לְרִ֖יק (רִ֖יק) Rik “emptiness”

  4. Psalms 2:1

    Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

    רִֽיק׃ Rik “vanity”

  5. Psalms 4:3

    O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be put to shame, in that ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah

    רִ֑יק Rik “vanity”

  6. Psalms 73:13

    Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;

    רִ֭יק rik “vanity”

  7. Isaiah 30:7

    For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still.

    וָרִ֖יק (רִ֖יק) Rik “vanity”

  8. Isaiah 49:4

    But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.'

    לְרִ֣יק (רִ֣יק) Rik “emptiness”

  9. Isaiah 65:23

    They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

    לָרִ֔יק (רִ֔יק) Rik “emptiness”

  10. Jeremiah 51:34

    Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath set me down as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath washed me clean.

    רִ֔יק Rik “emptiness”

  11. Jeremiah 51:58

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts: the broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labour for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

    רִ֛יק rik “emptiness”

  12. Habakkuk 2:13

    Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

    רִ֥יק rik “vanity”