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הֶבֶל H1892

H1892 is the Hebrew word הֶבֶל, transliterated hebel and said heh'bel. The King James Version most often renders it vanity.

Word: הֶבֶלTransliteration: hebelSaid: heh'belLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 49 verses

What it means

emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb.

Where it comes from

or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from H1891 (הָבַל).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 53 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

vanity 23×vain 10×vanities 8×also vanity 3×also is vanity 2×thus altogether 1×low degree are vanity 1×gotten by vanity 1×behold all is vanity 1×behold all was vanity 1×surely this also is vanity 1×also divers vanities 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.

Verses using הֶבֶל

The first 40 of 49 verses, quoted in full.

Deuteronomy 32:21 · KJV

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Kings 16:13 · KJV

For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:26 · KJV

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

2 Kings 17:15 · KJV

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Job 21:34 · KJV

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Job 27:12 · KJV

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Job 35:16 · KJV

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Psalm 31:6 · KJV

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 39:5 · KJV

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 39:6 · KJV

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 39:11 · KJV

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalm 62:9 · KJV

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Psalm 78:33 · KJV

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Psalm 144:4 · KJV

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Proverbs 13:11 · KJV

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Proverbs 21:6 · KJV

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Proverbs 31:30 · KJV

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Ecclesiastes 1:2 · KJV

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:14 · KJV

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 · KJV

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 · KJV

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:21 · KJV

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 · KJV

For God 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 before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 · KJV

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 · KJV

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 · KJV

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 4:16 · KJV

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 · KJV

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Ecclesiastes 6:2 · KJV

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that 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 it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 · KJV

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 · KJV

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:11 · KJV

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · KJV

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15 · KJV

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:14 · KJV

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 · KJV

Live joyfully 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 this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 12:8 · KJV

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

Isaiah 30:7 · KJV

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

Isaiah 49:4 · KJV

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

Isaiah 57:13 · KJV

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Common questions

What does Strong's H1892 mean?

H1892 is the Hebrew word הֶבֶל (hebel), meaning emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb.

How is H1892 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it vanity (23 times), vain (10 times), vanities (8 times), also vanity (3 times), also is vanity (2 times), among others.

How many times does H1892 appear in the Bible?

הֶבֶל (hebel) is tagged in 49 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H1892 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from H1891 (הָבַל).

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