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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

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.

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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, provoking 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 - And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, provoking 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 which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had 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 it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:29 - Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:12 - Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:16 - For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:5 - Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:6 - Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily 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 a 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

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 - Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:33 - And he consumed their days 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 diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase it.

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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 breath of them that seek death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 - Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; 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 pursuit of the 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 try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is 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 labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:17 - And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the 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 shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been 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 labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be 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 sorrows, and his travail vexation: 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 he giveth to a man that is good in his sight 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 is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:4 - And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:7 - And 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 alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:16 - There is no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:7 - For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear 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 - one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.

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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 its name is covered with darkness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:9 - Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:11 - For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12 - For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell 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 the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by his wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:10 - And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went 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; and 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 - Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet 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 - Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth 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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