Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1892: הֶבֶל (hebel) Definition

Strong's number
H1892
Lemma
הֶבֶל
Transliteration
hebel
Pronunciation
heh'bel
Strong's definition
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity. or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from H1891 (הָבַל);

64 instances of the word הֶבֶל hebel (H1892)


  • Ecclesiastes 5:10 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied silver He that loveth abundance with increase this is also vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 6:2 - A man hath given to whom God riches wealth and honour so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth giveth him not power to whom God eateth A man eateth it this is vanity disease and it is an evil

  • Ecclesiastes 6:4 - in with vanity For he cometh in darkness in darkness and his name shall be covered

  • Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit

  • Ecclesiastes 6:11 - Seeing there be things many many vanity the better what is man

  • Ecclesiastes 6:12 - For who knoweth what is good a man in this life all the days in this life of his vain which he spendeth as a shadow for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun

  • Ecclesiastes 7:6 - For as the crackling of thorns of thorns so is the laughter of the fool this also is vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 7:15 - All things have I seen in the days of my vanity there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness there is and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness

  • Ecclesiastes 8:10 - And so I saw the wicked buried who had come from the place of the holy and gone and they were forgotten in the city And so where they had so done this is also vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 8:14 - There is a vanity which is done upon the earth There is of the righteous men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked There is of the wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous I said that this also a vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 9:9 - joyfully Live with the wife whom thou lovest all the days Live of thy vanity which he hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity for that is thy portion Live and in thy labour which thou takest thee under the sun

  • Ecclesiastes 11:8 - years for they shall be many live But if a man and rejoice in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many All that cometh is vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 11:10 - Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 12:8 - Vanity Vanity saith the preacher Vanity

  • Isaiah 30:7 - For the Egyptians in vain and to no purpose shall help therefore have I cried concerning this strength Their is to sit still

  • Isaiah 49:4 - Then I said in vain I have laboured for nought and in vain my strength I have spent yet surely my judgment is with the LORD and my work with my God

  • Isaiah 57:13 - When thou criest deliver let thy companies shall carry them all away thee but the wind shall take vanity them but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit mountain my holy

  • Jeremiah 2:5 - Thus saith the LORD found have your fathers What iniquity in me that they are gone far after vanity and are become vain

  • Jeremiah 8:19 - Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people country because of them that dwell in a far Is not the LORD in Zion is not her king in her Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images vanities and with strange

  • Jeremiah 10:3 - For the customs of the people are vain a tree out of the forest for one cutteth the work of the hands of the workman with the axe