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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 - Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:4 - I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:37

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken me in thy way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1 - {A Song of degrees. Of Solomon.} Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth 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 lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:20 - For they speak of thee wickedly, they take thy name in vain, thine enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:8 - Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their 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 from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their 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 vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to put a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; 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 smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - -- And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - For my people hath forgotten me: they burn incense to vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of expulsion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - They have seen vanity and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith! and Jehovah hath not sent them; and they make them to hope that the word will be fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7 - Have ye not seen a vain vision, and spoken a lying divination, when ye say, Jehovah saith; and I have not spoken?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye speak vanity, and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - And my hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the register of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:23 - therefore ye shall no more see vanity, nor divine divinations; and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - And this shall be a false divination in their sight, for them that have sworn oaths; but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - whilst they see vanity for thee, whilst they divine a lie unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day is come at the time of the iniquity of the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4 - They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:8 - They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams: they comfort in vain. Therefore they have gone away as a flock, they are in distress, because there is no shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14 - Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
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