Shâvᵉʼ — H7723

H7723 · Hebrew — שוא

Pronunciation: shawv

Other spellings: shav שַׁו

Definition

masculine noun

evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)

  1. emptiness, vanity, falsehood
    1. emptiness, nothingness, vanity
    2. emptiness of speech, lying
    3. worthlessness (of conduct)

Usually translated as

vain, vanity, false, lying, falsely, lie

Origin

or shav; from the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Shâvᵉʼ occurs 53 times in 48 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Deuteronomy (2), Job (5), Psalms (14), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (5), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (9), Hosea (2), Jonah (1), Zechariah (1), Malachi (1)

Strong's Lexicon — S