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Lexicon :: Strong's H7385 - rîq

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רִיק
Transliteration
rîq
Pronunciation
reek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 2161b

Strong’s Definitions

רִיק rîyq, reek; from H7324; emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:—empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H7385 in the following manner: vain (7x), vanity (2x), no purpose (1x), empty (1x), vain thing (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H7385 in the following manner: vain (7x), vanity (2x), no purpose (1x), empty (1x), vain thing (1x).
  1. emptiness, vanity, empty, idle, vain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רִיק rîyq, reek; from H7324; emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:—empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.
STRONGS H7385: Abbreviations
רִיק noun [masculine] emptiness, vanity; — chiefly in adverb phrase לְרִיק Isaiah 46:4; Job 39:16 in vain (of labour without benefit), so לָר׳ Leviticus 26:16, 20 (H), Isaiah 65:23; and as adverb accusative רִיק Isaiah 30:7; Psalm 73:13, probably also Psalm 2:1 (most = empty scheme as רֵיק 2) compare Psalm 4:3 (read probably רֵיק); בְּדֵי דִיק Jeremiah 51:58 = Habakkuk 2:13. — Jeremiah 51:34 see רֵיק 1 above.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:16; 26:20

Job

39:16

Psalms

2:1; 4:3; 73:13

Isaiah

30:7; 46:4; 65:23

Jeremiah

51:34; 51:58

Habakkuk

2:13

H7385

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7385 matches the Hebrew רִיק (rîq),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly H7385, for your enemies will eat it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - ‘And your power will be spent uselessly H7385, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 -

“She treats her children cruelly, as if they were not hers;

Though her labor be empty H7385, she is without dread,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:1 -

Why do the [fn]nations rage

And the peoples meditate on a vain H7385 thing H7385?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:2 -

O sons of men, how long will my glory become a reproach?

How long will you love what H7385 is H7385 worthless H7385 and seek falsehood? [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 -

Surely in vain H7385 I have [fn]kept my heart pure

And washed my hands in innocence;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 -

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty H7385.

Therefore, I have called [fn]her

[fn]Rahab who has ceased.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 -

But I said, “I have toiled in vain H7385;

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 65:23 -

“They will not labor in vain H7385,

Or bear children for terror;

For they are the seed of those blessed by Yahweh,

And their offspring with them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 -

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and brought me into confusion;

He has set me down like an empty vessel;

He has swallowed me like a sea monster;

He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;

He has rinsed me away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:58 -

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed,

And her high gates will be set on fire;

So the peoples will toil for nothing H7385,

And the nations become weary only for fire.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 -

“Is it not, behold, from Yahweh of hosts

That peoples toil for fire,

And nations grow weary for nothing H7385?

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