TBESH · H1892
הֶ֫בֶל · he.vel · vanity
1) vapour, breath 1a) breath, vapour 1b) vanity (fig.) adv 2) vainly
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he.vel H1892
הֶ֫בֶל (he.vel) means “vanity” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
הֶ֫בֶל Hebrew · H1892 73 tagged occurrences in 64 verses
Pronunciation guide: heh'bel Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from H1891 (הָבַל); emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV glosses: [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.
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How translators render H1892
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| is futile | 20 |
| futility | 5 |
| are worthless | 3 |
| in vain | 3 |
| of futilities | 3 |
| to be futile | 3 |
| with their worthless idols | 3 |
| worthless idols | 3 |
| a breath | 2 |
| idols | 2 |
| in futility | 2 |
| a futility | 1 |
| a vapor | 1 |
| and offer empty | 1 |
| and vanity | 1 |
| are fleeting | 1 |
| are futile | 1 |
| as we looked in vain | 1 |
| bring futility | 1 |
| but a breath | 1 |
| by worthless idols | 1 |
| dishonest | 1 |
| empty talk | 1 |
| exists as but a breath | 1 |
| his fleeting | 1 |
| in my futile | 1 |
| is but a vapor | 1 |
| is fleeting | 1 |
| mist | 1 |
| of the fleeting | 1 |
| the worthless idols | 1 |
| they are but a vapor | 1 |
| to worthless idols | 1 |
| with empty words | 1 |
| your fleeting | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| vanity | 32 |
| also vanity | 6 |
| in vain | 4 |
| of vanities | 4 |
| vanities | 4 |
| with their vanities | 3 |
| a vanity | 2 |
| of thy vanity | 2 |
| vain | 2 |
| among the vanities | 1 |
| and in vain | 1 |
| by vanity | 1 |
| for our vain | 1 |
| i in vain | 1 |
| in vanity | 1 |
| in with vanity | 1 |
| of his vain | 1 |
| of my vanity | 1 |
| than vanity | 1 |
| this is also vanity | 1 |
| to vanity | 1 |
| why then are ye thus altogether | 1 |
| ye me in vain | 1 |
Verses containing H1892
Page 2 of 2. 64 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Isaiah 30:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
Read word by word - Isaiah 49:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 57:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 10:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 10:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Read word by word - Jeremiah 10:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 16:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Read word by word - Lamentations 4:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
Read word by word - Jonah 2:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.9
- Zechariah 10:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
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