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Lexicon :: Strong's G3152 - mataios

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μάταιος
Transliteration
mataios (Key)
Pronunciation
mat'-ah-yos
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of μάτην (G3155)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:519,571

Trench's Synonyms: xlix. κενός, μάταιος.

Strong’s Definitions

μάταιος mátaios, mat'-ah-yos; from the base of G3155; empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol:—vain, vanity.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G3152 in the following manner: vain (5x), vanities (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G3152 in the following manner: vain (5x), vanities (1x).
  1. devoid of force, truth, success, result

  2. useless, of no purpose

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μάταιος mátaios, mat'-ah-yos; from the base of G3155; empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol:—vain, vanity.
STRONGS G3152:
μάταιος, μάταια (1 Corinthians 15:17; (1 Peter 1:18)), μάταιον, also μάταιος, μάταιον (James 1:26; Titus 3:9) (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 157; Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1) (from μάτην), the Sept. for הֶבֶל, שָׁוְא, כָּזָב (a lie), etc.; as in secular authors (Latincanus) devoid of force, truth, success, result (A. V. uniformly vain): universally, θρησκεία, James 1:26; useless, to no purpose, πίστις, 1 Corinthians 15:17; foolish, διαλογισμοί, 1 Corinthians 3:20; ζητήσεις, Titus 3:9; given to vain things and leading away from salvation, ἀναστροφή, 1 Peter 1:18. τά μάταια, vain things, vanities, of heathen deities and their worship (הֶבֶל, Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 10:3; הַהֶבֶל אַחֲרֵי יָלַך, πορεύεσθαι ὀπίσω τῶν ματαίων, 2 Kings 17:15; הֲבָלִים, μάταια, Jeremiah 8:19; εἴδωλα, Deuteronomy 32:21; Jeremiah 14:22): Acts 14:15. (Cf. Trench, Synonyms, § xlix.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
32:21
2 Kings
17:15
Jeremiah
2:5; 8:19; 10:3; 14:22
Acts
14:15
1 Corinthians
3:20; 15:17; 15:17
Titus
3:9; 3:9
James
1:26; 1:26
1 Peter
1:18; 1:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3152 matches the Greek μάταιος (mataios),
which occurs 73 times in 68 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 20:7–Eze 8:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 -

“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not [fn]leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 -

“You shall not give a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - “And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to the [fn]goat demons with which they play the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 -

‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God [fn]in vain, for the LORD will not [fn]leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Since I exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have misled My people Israel into sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which they [fn]committed and into which they misled Israel, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their [fn]idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked [fn]entirely in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins into which he misled Israel, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their [fn]idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 -

There certainly was no one like Ahab who gave himself over to do evil in the sight of the LORD, [fn]because Jezebel his wife incited him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His warnings which He [fn]gave them. And they followed [fn]idols and became empty, and followed the nations that surrounded them, about which the LORD had commanded them not to do as they did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and the calves which he had made.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 -

“He returns the product of his labor

And cannot swallow it;

As to the riches of his trading,

He cannot even enjoy them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:16 -

So Job opens his mouth with empty words;

He multiplies words without knowledge.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:7 -

Arise, LORD; save me, my God!

For You [fn]have struck all my enemies on the [fn]cheek;

You [fn]have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:9 -

For there is nothing [fn]trustworthy in [fn]their mouth;

Their inward part is destruction itself.

Their throat is an open grave;

They [fn]flatter with their tongue.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 -

They speak [fn]lies to one another;

They speak with [fn]flattering lips and a double heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 -

One who has clean hands and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul to deceit

And has not sworn deceitfully.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 -

Oh give us help against the enemy,

For rescue [fn]by man is worthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 -

People of low standing are only breath, and people of rank are a lie;

In the balances they go up.

Together they are lighter than breath.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 -

Surely in vain I have [fn]kept my heart pure

And washed my hands in innocence;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 -

Remember [fn]what my lifespan is;

For what futility [fn]You have created all the sons of mankind!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 -

The LORD knows human thoughts,

[fn]That they are mere breath.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 -

Give us help against the enemy,

For deliverance [fn]by man is worthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:11 -

One who works his land will have plenty of bread,

But one who pursues worthless things lacks [fn]sense.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:6 -

The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue

Is a fleeting vapor, the [fn]pursuit of death.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 -

Like a sparrow in its [fn]flitting, like a swallow in its flying,

So a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 -

Keep deception and [fn]lies far from me,

Give me neither poverty nor riches;

Feed me with the food that is my portion,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 -

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,

But a woman who [fn]fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 -

“Do not go on bringing your worthless offerings,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and Sabbath, the proclamation of an assembly

I cannot endure wrongdoing and the festive assembly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:20 -

On that day people will throw away to the moles and the bats

Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

Which they made for themselves to worship,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 -

You who were full of noise,

You tumultuous town, you jubilant city;

Your dead were not killed with the sword,

Nor [fn]did they die in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:29 -

This also comes from the LORD of armies,

Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 -

It will be as when a hungry person dreams

And behold, he is eating;

But when he awakens, his [fn]hunger is not satisfied,

Or as when a thirsty person dreams

And behold, he is drinking,

But when he awakens, behold, he is faint

And his [fn]thirst is not quenched.

So will the multitude of all the nations be

Who wage war against Mount Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 -

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.

Therefore, I have called [fn]her

[fn]Rahab who has been exterminated.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 -

For this is what the Lord [fn]GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said:

“In [fn]repentance and rest you will be saved,

In quietness and trust is your strength.”

But you were not willing,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 -

His breath is like an overflowing river,

Which reaches to the neck,

To shake the nations back and forth in a [fn]sieve,

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads astray.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:2 -

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster,

And does not retract His words,

But will arise against the house of evildoers,

And against the help of the workers of injustice.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 -

For a fool speaks nonsense,

And his heart [fn]inclines toward wickedness:

To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD,

To [fn]keep the hungry person unsatisfied

And [fn]to withhold drink from the thirsty.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 -

“You have conceived [fn]chaff, you will give birth to stubble;

[fn]My breath will consume you like a fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 -

Those who fashion an idol are all futile, and their treasured things are of no benefit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 -

“I have not spoken in secret,

In [fn]some dark land;

I did not say to the [fn]offspring of Jacob,

‘Seek Me in [fn]a wasteland’;

I, the LORD, speak righteousness,

Declaring things that are right.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 -

But I said, “I have labored in vain,

I have spent My strength for nothing and futility;

Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the LORD,

And My reward is with My God.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 -

No one sues righteously and no one pleads [fn]honestly.

They trust in confusion and speak lies;

They conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - This is what the LORD says:

“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,

That they went far from Me,

And walked after emptiness and became empty?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 -

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:

“Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”

“Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, with foreign [fn]idols?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the customs of the peoples are futile;

For it is wood cut from the forest,

The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 -

They are worthless, a work of mockery;

At the time of their punishment they will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:18 -

They are worthless, a work of mockery;

At the time of their punishment they will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 -

Your prophets have seen for you

Worthless and deceptive visions;

And they have not exposed your wrongdoing

So as to restore you from captivity,

But they have seen for you worthless and misleading pronouncements.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 -

Yet our eyes failed,

Looking for [fn]help was useless;

At our observation point we have watched

For a nation that could not save.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of crawling things and animals and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

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