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Lexicon :: Strong's H7723 - šāv'

Aa
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 BoxExo 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4 - I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1 - <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 - It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8 - In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11 - Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - For there will be no more false visions or smooth use of secret arts in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - They have seen visions without substance and made use of secret arts, who say, The Lord has said; and the Lord has not sent them: hoping that the word would have effect.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7 - Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8 - So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - And my hand will be against the prophets who see visions without substance and who make false use of secret arts: they will not be in the secret of my people, and they will not be recorded in the list of the children of Israel, and they will not come into the land of Israel; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - For this cause you will see no more foolish visions or make false use of secret arts: and I will make my people free from your power; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4 - Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:8 - The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14 - You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
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