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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 Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not [fn]leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 -

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

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

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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Inasmuch as I exalted you from the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,
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 sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their [fn]idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their [fn]idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 -

Surely there was no one who sold himself to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They also rejected His statutes and His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - And he set up priests of his own for the high places, for the goat demons and for the calves which he had made
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 -

“He returns what he has attained

And cannot swallow it;

As to the wealth of his trading,

He cannot even enjoy it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:16 -

So Job opens his mouth vainly;

He multiplies words without knowledge.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:7 -

Arise, O Yahweh; save me, O my God!

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

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

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:9 -

There is nothing [fn]reliable in 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 worthlessness to one another;

With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 -

He who has innocent hands and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul [fn]to worthlessness

And has not sworn deceitfully.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 -

Oh give us help against the adversary,

For salvation [fn]by man is worthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 -

Surely [fn]men of low degree are merely vanity and [fn]men of rank are a lie;

In the balances they go up;

They are together lighter than a breath of vanity.

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 span of life is;

For what vanity [fn]You have created all the sons of men!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 -

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,

[fn]That they are vanity.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 -

Oh give us help against the adversary,

For salvation [fn]by man is worthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:11 -

He who cultivates his land will be satisfied with bread,

But he who pursues empty things lacks a heart of wisdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:6 -

Working for treasures by a lying tongue

Is a fleeting breath, by those who pursue death.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:2 -

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

So a curse without cause does not come to pass.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 -

Keep worthlessness and every false word far from me,

Give me neither poverty nor riches;

Feed me with the food that is my portion,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 -

Shin

[fn]Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 -

“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and sabbath, the calling of convocation

I cannot endure wickedness and the solemn assembly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:20 -

In that day men will cast 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 roaring city, you exultant town;

Your slain were not slain with the sword,

Nor [fn]did they die in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:29 -

This also comes from Yahweh of hosts,

Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 -

And it will be as when a hungry man dreams

And behold, he is eating;

But he awakens, and his soul is empty,

Or as when a thirsty man dreams

And behold, he is drinking,

But he awakens, and behold, he is faint,

And his soul is not quenched.

Thus the multitude of all the nations will 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 ceased.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 -

For thus Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, has said,

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

In quietness and trust is your might.”

But you were not willing,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 -

His breath is like an overflowing torrent,

Which reaches to the neck,

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

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which staggers one to ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:2 -

Yet He also is wise and will bring about an evil demise

And does not turn His words aside,

But will arise against the house of evildoers

And against the help of the workers of iniquity.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 -

For a wicked fool speaks wicked folly,

And his heart does wickedness:

To do ungodliness and to speak error against Yahweh,

In order to make the hungry person empty;

He even causes the thirsty to lack a drink.

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 form [fn]a graven image are all of them [fn]futile, and their desirable things are of no profit; 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 seed of Jacob,

‘Seek Me in [fn]a formless place’;

I, Yahweh, speak righteousness,

Declaring things that are upright.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 -

But I said, “I have toiled in vain;

I have spent My might for [fn]nothing and vanity;

Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,

And My reward with My God.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 -

No one calls in righteousness, and no one seeks justice in truth.

They trust in [fn]confusion and speak worthlessness;

They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - Thus says Yahweh,

“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,

That they went far from Me

And walked after vanity and became vain?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 -

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

“Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity

Because 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 vanity, a work of mockery;

In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:18 -

They are vanity, a work of mockery;

In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 -

Nun

Your prophets have beheld for you

Worthless and ineffective visions;

And they have not uncovered your iniquity

So as to [fn]return you from captivity,

But they have beheld for you worthless and misleading [fn]oracles.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 -

Ayin

Yet our eyes were spent,

Looking for [fn]help was vanity;

In our watching 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 creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

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