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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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Job 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 7:16 · retained source text

I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.

Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 15:31 · retained source text

Let not him that is deceiued, trust in vanitie: for vanitie shalbe his recompence.

Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 15:35 · retained source text

They conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth vanitie, and their belly prepareth deceit.

1611 marginal noteOr, iniquitie.

1611 marginal noteEsay 59.4. psal. 7.15.

Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 31:5 · retained source text

If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 35:13 · retained source text

Surely God wil not heare vanitie, neither wil the Almightie regard it.

1611 marginal noteIob. 27.9. prou. 1.28. isa. 1.15. ier. 11.11.

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