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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 - She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:1 - Why do the nations conspire[fn] and the peoples plot in vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:2 - How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?[fn][fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 - to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.

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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 at all. Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:58

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:58 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Babylon’s thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 - Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
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