KJV dictionary & concordance
Emptiness, futility, worthlessness, falsehood, unreliability, or transience.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: 2 Kings 17:15
Complete exact-word concordance
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He that hath cleane hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lift vp his soule vnto vanitie, nor sworne deceitfully.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the cleane of handes.
1611 marginal noteEsa.23.15.16.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
1611 marginal noteHeb. setled.
1611 marginal notePsal.62.9. & 144.4.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
1611 marginal noteHeb. that which is to be desired in him, to melt away.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
And if hee come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquitie to it selfe, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Surely men of low degree are vanitie, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ballance, they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
1611 marginal noteOr, alike.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are vanitie.
1611 marginal note1.Cor.3.20.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanitie: and quicken thou me in thy way.
1611 marginal noteHeb. make to passe.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.
1611 marginal notePsal.39.6. iob 14.2.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Whose mouth speaketh vanitie: and their right hand is a right hand of falshood.
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