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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 54 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - "If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will Shaddai regard it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4 - I have not sat with deceitful men, Neither will I go in with hypocrites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Give us help against the adversary, For the help of man is vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:37

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1 - A Ma`alot Song. By Shlomo. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 - It is vain for you to rise up early, To stay up late, Eating the bread of toil; For he gives sleep to his loved ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8 - Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11 - Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Shabbatot, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they seek your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - Go up into Gil`ad, and take balm, virgin daughter of Mitzrayim: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, the LORD says; but the LORD has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7 - Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, the LORD says; but I have not spoken?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Yisra'el, neither shall they enter into Eretz-Yisra'el; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4 - They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - If Gil`ad is wicked, Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:8 - Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the terafim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14 - You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
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