H1892–הֶ֫בֶל–he.vel

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

הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “futility”

But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice [ergänzt: due] to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.

וְהֶ֖בֶל (הֶ֖בֶל) He.vel “futility”

When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “a breath”

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

הַהֶ֖בֶל (הֶ֖בֶל) He.vel “vanity”

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

בְּהַבְלֵ֥י (הַבְלֵ֥י) hav.Lei “vanities of”

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

הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[is] futility”

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

הֲבָלִ֖ים ha.va.Lim “futilities”

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

הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[are] futility”

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.

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

O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, [ergänzt: even] vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “futility”

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

הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[are] futility”

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

הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “futility”

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

הַבְלֵי־ hav.lei- “vanities of”

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 afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “futility”