TBESH · H7385
רִיק · riq · vain
emptiness, vanity, empty, idle, vain
STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
riq H7385
רִיק (riq) means “vain” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
רִיק Hebrew · H7385 12 tagged occurrences in 12 verses
Pronunciation guide: reek Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H7324 (רוּק); emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV glosses: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.
Open Scriptures transcription · CC BY-SA
How translators render H7385
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 |
|---|---|
| in vain | 6 |
| and empty | 1 |
| like an empty | 1 |
| vain | 1 |
| vanity | 1 |
| was in vain | 1 |
| will be for nothing | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| in vain | 5 |
| vanity | 2 |
| a vain thing | 1 |
| and to no purpose | 1 |
| is in vain | 1 |
| me an empty | 1 |
| vain | 1 |
Verses containing H7385
Page 1 of 1. 12 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Leviticus 26:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
Read word by word - Job 39:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
Read word by word - Psalms 2:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Read word by word - Psalms 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.3
- Psalms 73:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Read word by word - 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 65:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:58
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
Read word by word - Habakkuk 2:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
Read word by word