KJV dictionary & concordance
To disappear, pass away, or cease to remain.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 6:17
Complete exact-word concordance
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
What time they waxe warme, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
1611 marginal noteHebr. they are cut off.
1611 marginal noteHebr. in the heat thereof.
1611 marginal noteHebr. extinguished.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Lift vp your eyes to the heauens, and looke vpon the earth beneath: for the heauens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall waxe old like a garment, and they that dwel therein shall die in like maner: but my saluation shal be for euer, and my righteousnes shall not be abolished.
1611 marginal notePsal. 102.27. matth. 24.35.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Charitie neuer faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall faile; whether there bee tongues, they shall cease; whether there bee knowledge, it shall vanish away.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
In that he saith, A new Couenant, he hath made the first olde. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old, is readie to vanish away.
Source order
1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
To disappear; to pass from a visible to an invisible state; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated. […] To disappear; to pass away; to be annihilated or lost.
