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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, ἡ θρησκεία, James 1:26; useless, to no purpose, ἡ 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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - “‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

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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 which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

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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 the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 - He will give back the fruit of his toil
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of his trading
he will get no enjoyment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:16 - Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he multiplies words without knowledge.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:7 - Arise, O LORD!
Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:9 - For there is no truth in their mouth;
their inmost self is destruction;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongue.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Oh, grant us help against the foe,
for vain is the salvation of man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 - Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 - All in vain have I kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 - the LORD—knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Oh grant us help against the foe,
for vain is the salvation of man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:11 - Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,
but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

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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 fleeting vapor and a snare of death.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 - Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
a curse that is causeless does not alight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 - Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—
I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:20 - In that day mankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the bats,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, exultant town?
Your slain are not slain with the sword
or dead in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:29 - This also comes from the LORD of hosts;
he is wonderful in counsel
and excellent in wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating,
and awakes with his hunger not satisfied,
or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking,
and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
that fight against Mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 - Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
“Rahab who sits still.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 - For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel,
“In returning[fn] and rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - his breath is like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:2 - And yet he is wise and brings disaster;
he does not call back his words,
but will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - For the fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the LORD,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 - You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
your breath is a fire that will consume you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - I did not speak in secret,
in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
‘Seek me in vain.’[fn]
I the LORD speak the truth;
I declare what is right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 - But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the LORD,
and my recompense with my God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - No one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - Thus says the LORD:
“What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the LORD not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 - for the customs of the peoples are vanity.[fn]
A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 - They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:18 - They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - Your prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
they have not exposed your iniquity
to restore your fortunes,
but have seen for you oracles
that are false and misleading.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Our eyes failed, ever watching
vainly for help;
in our watching we watched
for a nation which could not save.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.

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