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Lexicon :: Strong's H1892 - heḇel

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הֶבֶל
Transliteration
heḇel
Pronunciation
heh'bel
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Part of Speech
adverb, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 463a

Strong’s Definitions

הֶבֶל hebel, heh'bel; or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל hăbêl; from H1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb:—× altogether, vain, vanity.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x

The KJV translates Strong's H1892 in the following manner: vanity (61x), vain (11x), altogether (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x
The KJV translates Strong's H1892 in the following manner: vanity (61x), vain (11x), altogether (1x).

  1. vapour, breath

    1. breath, vapour

    2. vanity (fig.)

      adverb

  2. vainly

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הֶבֶל hebel, heh'bel; or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל hăbêl; from H1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb:—× altogether, vain, vanity.
STRONGS H1892: Abbreviations
I. הֶ֫בֶל 73 noun masculine vapour, breath (Late Hebrew id., Syriac Hxbfh id.) figurative vanity (so Late Hebrew, Syriac Hbeh) — הָ֑בֶל Ecclesiastes 1:2 +; construct הֲבֵל Ecclesiastes 1:2 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 12:8, suffix הֶבְלִי etc. Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 9:9 (twice in verse); plural הֲבָלִים Jeremiah 10:8 +; construct הַבְלֵי Jeremiah 8:19 +, suffix הַבְלֵיהֶם Deuteronomy 32:21 +; —
1. literal Isaiah 57:13 all of them (the idols) יִשָּׂארֿוּחַ יִקַּח הָ֑בֶל a breath (Vulgate aura) will carry away, Proverbs 21:6 the getting of treasures by a lying tongue is הֶבֶל נִדָּף a vapour driven away. Elsewhere always
2. figurative of what is evanescent, unsubstantial, worthless, vanity, as of idols Jeremiah 10:15 = Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 16:19 הֶבֶל וְאֵין בָּם מוֺעִיל (|| שֶׁקֶר), heathen observances Jeremiah 10:3, and in phrase הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי הַהֶבֶל Jeremiah 2:5; 2 Kings 17:15; Proverbs 13:11 הוֺן מֵהֶבֶל wealth (gotten) out of vanity, (i.e. not by solid toil, opposed to קֹבֵץ עַל יָד) is minished (but Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Ew מְבֹהָל, see Proverbs 20:21 Qr), Proverbs 31:30 שֶׁקֶר הַחֵן וְהֶבֶל הַיֹּ֑פִי, Lamentations 4:17 אֶל עֶזְרָתֵנוּ הֶבֶל to our vain (Dr§ 193 n.) help; of life Job 7:16 כִּי הֶבֶל יָמָֽי׃, Psalm 78:33 וַיְכַל בַּהֶבֶל יְמֵיהֶם consumed their days as (בְּ I:7 d vanity, man Psalm 39:6; Psalm 39:12; Psalm 62:10 יָֽחַד׃ מֵהֶבֶל הֵמָּה … אָדָם בְּנֵי הֶבֶל they are altogether (made) of vanity, Psalm 94:11; Psalm 144:4, especially in Ecclesiastes (31 times + הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים Ecclesiastes 1:2 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 12:8) of the fruitlessness of all human enterprise and endeavour, Ecclesiastes 1:2 הַכֹּל הֶבֶל, Ecclesiastes 1:14 רוּחַ וּרְעוּת הֶבֶל הַכֹּל all was vanity and the pursuit of wind, Ecclesiastes 2:1, 14, 15 etc., Ecclesiastes 6:4 (of an abortion) בַּהֶבֶל בָּא i.e. into a lifeless existence, Ecclesiastes 6:11 הָ֑בֶל מַרְבִּים הַרְבֵּה דְּבָרִים יֵשׁ (of discussions leading to no result), note also the phrases יְמֵי (הֶבְלוֺ, הֶבְלְךָ) הֶבְלִי Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 9:9, יְמֵי חַיֵּי ה׳ Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 9:9; Job 27:12 (see הָבַל), Isaiah 49:4 לְתֹהוּ וָהֶבֶל for nought and vanity have I spent my strength; as adverb accusative vainly, to no purpose Isaiah 30:7 הֶבֶל וָרִיק יַעֲזֹ֑רוּ, Psalm 39:7 אַךְ הֶבֶל יֶהֱמָיוּן they disquiet themselves to no purpose, Job 9:29: הֶבֶל אִיגָָֽע Job 35:16, with נִחַם to comfort Job 21:34; Zechariah 10:2. Plural הֲבָלִים of false gods, Deuteronomy 32:21 ) כִּעֲסוּנִי בְהַבְלֵיהֶם || בְּלֹאאֵֿל) 1 Kings 16:13, 26; Jeremiah 8:19 הַבְלֵי נֵכָר || (בִּפְסִילֵיהֶםׅ, Jeremiah 10:8; Jeremiah 14:22 הַבְלֵי הַגּוֺיִם, Psalm 31:7 הַשֹּׁמְרִים הַבְלֵישָֿׁוְא empty vanities Jonah 2:9; in more general sense Ecclesiastes 1:2 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 12:8 הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים, Ecclesiastes 5:6.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

32:21; 32:21

1 Kings

16:13; 16:26

2 Kings

17:15

Job

7:16; 9:29; 21:34; 27:12; 35:16

Psalms

31:7; 39:6; 39:7; 39:12; 62:10; 78:33; 94:11; 144:4

Proverbs

13:11; 20:21; 21:6; 31:30

Ecclesiastes

1:2; 1:2; 1:2; 1:2; 1:2; 1:14; 2:1; 2:14; 2:15; 5:6; 6:4; 6:11; 6:12; 6:12; 7:15; 7:15; 9:9; 9:9; 9:9; 12:8; 12:8; 12:8

Isaiah

30:7; 49:4; 57:13

Jeremiah

2:5; 8:19; 8:19; 10:3; 10:8; 10:8; 10:15; 14:22; 16:19; 51:18

Lamentations

4:17

Jonah

2:9

Zechariah

10:2

H1892

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Strong's Number H1892 matches the Hebrew הֶבֶל (heḇel),
which occurs 73 times in 64 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 32:21–Ecc 12:8)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 -
I loathe my life; I would not live alway:
Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:29 -
I shall be condemned;
Why then do I labor in vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 -
How then comfort ye me in vain,
Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:12 -
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;
Why then are ye become altogether vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:16 -
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity;
He multiplieth words without knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 -
I hate them that regard lying vanities;
But I trust in Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:5 -
Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;
And my life-time is as nothing before thee:
Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.
[Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:6

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Surely every man walketh in a vain show;
Surely they are disquieted in vain:
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11 -
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,
Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
Surely every man is vanity.
[Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:9

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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie:
In the balances they will go up;
They are together lighter than vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:33

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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
And their years in terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 -
Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,
That they are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4 -
Man is like to vanity:
His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:11 -
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished;
But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:6 -
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 -
Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain;
But a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:2 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:14 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:1 - I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:11 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:17 - So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:23 - For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:26 - For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:7 - Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8 - There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:16 - There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:7 - For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:10 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:4 - for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:11 - Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12 - For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:6 - For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:15 - All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:10 - So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14 - There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:9 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:8 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

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