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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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Jeremiah 2:5
¶ Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 2:5 · retained source text

¶ Thus sayth the LORD, What iniquitie haue your fathers found in me, that they are gone farre from mee, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?

Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 10:15 · retained source text

They are vanity, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 16:19 · retained source text

O LORD, my strength and my fortresse, and my refuge in the day of affliction; the Gentiles shall come vnto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say; Surely our fathers haue inherited lyes, vanitie, and things wherein there is no profit.

Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:15 · retained source text

Because my people hath forgotten mee, they haue burnt incense to vanitie, and they haue caused them to stumble in their waies from the ancient paths, to walke in paths, in a way not cast vp,

1611 marginal noteChap.17.13.

1611 marginal noteChap.6.16.

Jeremiah 51:18
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:18 · retained source text

They are vanitie, the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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