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Lexicon :: Strong's H7723 - šāv'

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שָׁוְא
Transliteration
šāv'
Pronunciation
shawv
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as שׁוֹא (H7722) in the sense of desolating
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TWOT Reference: 2338a

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁוְא shâvᵉʼ, shawv; or שַׁו shav; from the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):—false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x

The KJV translates Strong's H7723 in the following manner: vain (22x), vanity (22x), false (5x), lying (2x), falsely (1x), lies (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x
The KJV translates Strong's H7723 in the following manner: vain (22x), vanity (22x), false (5x), lying (2x), falsely (1x), lies (1x).

  1. emptiness, vanity, falsehood

    1. emptiness, nothingness, vanity

    2. emptiness of speech, lying

    3. worthlessness (of conduct)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁוְא shâvᵉʼ, shawv; or שַׁו shav; from the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):—false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
STRONGS H7723: Abbreviations
† שָׁוְא noun [masculine] emptiness, vanity; — שׁ׳ absolute Exodus 23:1 + 51 times, שָׁו Job 15:31 (Kt); —
1. emptiness, nothingness, vanity: תְּשׁוּעַת אָרָם שׁ׳ Psalm 60:13 vain (is) man's deliverance, = Psalm 108:13; לָכֶם שׁ׳ Psalm 127:2 it is vain (useless) for you; Psalm 89:48 for (עַל) what nothingness hast thou created man ? compare יַרְחֵי שׁ׳ Job 7:3; הַבְלֵי שׁ׳ Psalm 31:7 (idols) = Jonah 2:9, compare Jeremiah 18:15 + Hosea 5:11 Greek Version of the LXX (for צָו); מִנְחַת שׁ׳ Isaiah 1:13 of ineffective offering to י׳; נשׂא לַשּׁ׳ (לֹא) Exodus 20:7 (twice in verse) take up name of God in vain (to no good purpose) = Deuteronomy 5:11 (twice in verse), compare Psalm 24:4; Psalm 139:20 [MT lifted up in vain are thy foes, but read שְׁמֶ֑ךָ for עָרֶיךָ, compare נשׂא 1b (7); others. עָלֶיךָ, see II. עָר]; היה שׁ׳ Hosea 12:12 become nothing (We עשׂה שׁ׳, and so 3); ראה שׁ׳ Psalm 119:37; adverb לַשּׁ׳ in vain Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 4:30; Jeremiah 6:29; Jeremiah 46:11; שׁ׳ Psalm 127:1 (twice in verse); Malachi 3:14.
2. emptiness of speech, || lying, שׁ׳ וּדְבַר כָּזָב Proverbs 30:8; דבּר שׁ׳ Psalm 12:3; Psalm 41:7; Psalm 144:8; Psalm 144:11; Isaiah 59:4; Ezekiel 13:8; אָלוֺת שׁ׳ Hosea 10:4 + Hosea 12:2 Greek Version of the LXX We and others (for שֹׁד); הָלַךְ עִםשֿׁ׳ Job 31:5 (|| מִרְמָה); עֵד שׁ׳ Deuteronomy 5:17 (= עֵד שָֽׁקֶר Exodus 20:16); compare שֵׁמַע שׁ׳ Exodus 23:1 (E); of false (empty) prophecy חֲזוֺן שׁ׳ Ezekiel 12:24, חָזוּ שׁ׳ Lamentations 2:14; see also Ezekiel 13:6, 7, 9, 23; Ezekiel 21:34; Ezekiel 22:28; Job 35:13 (or empty complaining, below 1); קסם שׁ׳ Ezekiel 21:28; חֲלֹמוֺת הַשּׁ׳ Zechariah 10:2.
3. of conduct, worthlessness (Buhl below 1, 2); מְרתי שׁ׳ worthless men Psalm 26:4; Job 11:11; worthless motives (in figurative) חַבְלֵי הַשּׁ׳ Isaiah 5:18; נָפַת שׁ׳ Isaiah 30:28 (i.e. sifting out the worthless; al. sieve of (bringing) disappointment); play on meanings in Job 15:31 (twice in verse), compare DrJob, Psalt. 464.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

20:7; 20:16; 23:1; 23:1

Deuteronomy

5:11; 5:17

Job

7:3; 11:11; 15:31; 15:31; 31:5; 35:13

Psalms

12:3; 24:4; 26:4; 31:7; 41:7; 89:48; 108:13; 119:37; 127:1; 127:2; 139:20; 144:8; 144:11

Proverbs

30:8

Isaiah

1:13; 5:18; 30:28; 59:4

Jeremiah

2:30; 4:30; 6:29; 18:15; 46:11

Lamentations

2:14

Ezekiel

12:24; 13:6; 13:7; 13:8; 13:9; 13:23; 21:28; 22:28

Hosea

5:11; 10:4; 12:2; 12:12

Jonah

2:9

Zechariah

10:2

Malachi

3:14

H7723

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Strong's Number H7723 matches the Hebrew שָׁוְא (šāv'),
which occurs 53 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord thy God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - (LXX 11:3) Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - (LXX 23:4) He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully [fn]to his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4 - (LXX 25:4) I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - (LXX 30:7) Thou hast hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - (LXX 40:7) And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - (LXX 59:13) Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - (LXX 88:48) Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - (LXX 107:13) Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - (LXX 118:37) Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken thou me in thy way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1 - (LXX 126:1) A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labour in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 - (LXX 126:2) It is vain for you to rise early: ye rise up after resting, ye that eat the bread of grief; while he gives sleep to his beloved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - (LXX 138:20) For thou wilt say concerning their thought, that they shall take thy cities in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8 - (LXX 143:8) whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11 - (LXX 143:11) Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error: error also shall pursue them, and [fn]overtake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy beauty will be in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - (LXX 26:11) Go up to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - Nun. Thy prophets have seen for thee vanities and folly: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn back thy captivity; but they have seen for thee vain burdens, and worthless visions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - In the day of the Lord, have not stood, seeing false visions, prophesying vanities, who say, The Lord saith, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began to try to confirm the word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7 - Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8 - And therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - And I will stretch forth my hand against the prophets that see false visions, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the instruction of my people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - therefore ye shall not see false visions, and ye shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - (LXX 21:28) And he was to them as one using divination before them, and he himself recounting his iniquities, that they might be borne in mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - (LXX 21:34) While thou art seeing vain visions, and while thou art prophesying falsehoods, to bring thyself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day is come, even an end, in a season of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4 - and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - (LXX 12:12) If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:8 - (LXX 2:9) They that observe [fn]vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have [fn]seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they [fn]fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14 - Ye said, He that serves God [fn]labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?
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