KJV dictionary & concordance
Emptiness, futility, worthlessness, falsehood, unreliability, or transience.
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First occurrence: 2 Kings 17:15
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Hee that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer; nor he that loueth abundance, with increase: this is also vanitie.
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
A man to whom God hath giuen riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth, yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a stranger eateth it: Th is is vanitie, and it is an euill disease.
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
¶ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
¶ Better is the sight of the eyes, then the wandering of the desire: this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.
1611 marginal noteHeb. then the walking of the soule.
¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanitie, what is man the better?
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
For as the crackling of thornes vnder a pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.
1611 marginal noteHeb. sound
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
All things haue I seene in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his righteousnes, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickednes.
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come, and gone from the place of the Holy, and they were forgotten in the city, where they had so done: this is also vanitie.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
There is a vanitie which is done vpon the earth, that there be iust men vnto whom it happeneth according to the worke of the wicked: againe, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the worke of the righteous: I said, that this also is vanitie.
1611 marginal notePsa.73.13.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Liue ioyfully with the wife, whom thou louest, all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which he hath giuen thee vnder the Sunne, all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest vnder the Sunne.
1611 marginal noteHebr. see, or enioy life.
1611 marginal noteChap.2.24. and 3.13. and 5.18.
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