Occurrences
Rîyq occurs 12 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (2), Job (1), Psalms (3), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (2), Habakkuk (1)
- Leviticus 26:16 — I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain (לָרִיק֙), for your enemies shall eat it.
- Leviticus 26:20 — And your strength shall be spent in vain (לָרִ֖יק): for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
- Job 39:16 — She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain (לְרִ֖יק) without fear;
- Psalms 2:1 — Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing (רִֽיק)?
- Psalms 4:2 — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity (רִ֑יק), and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Psalms 73:13 — Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain (רִ֭יק), and washed my hands in innocency.
- Isaiah 30:7 — For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose (וָרִ֖יק): therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
- Isaiah 49:4 — Then I said, I have laboured in vain (לְרִ֣יק), 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 65:23 — They shall not labour in vain (לָרִ֔יק), nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
- Jeremiah 51:34 — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty (רִ֔יק) vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
- Jeremiah 51:58 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain (רִ֛יק), and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
- Habakkuk 2:13 — Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity (רִ֥יק)?