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vanity

Meaning of “vanity”

Emptiness, futility, worthlessness, falsehood, unreliability, or transience.

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86 occurrences79 verses14 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: 2 Kings 17:15

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2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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1611 witness · 2 Peter 2:18 · retained source text

For when they speake great svelling words of vanitie, they alure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonnesse, those that were cleane escaped from them who liue in errour.

1611 marginal noteOr, for a litle, or a while as some read.

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