KJV dictionary & concordance
Emptiness, futility, worthlessness, falsehood, unreliability, or transience.
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First occurrence: 2 Kings 17:15
Complete exact-word concordance
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
But if a man liue many yeeres, and reioyce in them all; yet let him remember the dayes of darkenesse, for they shall be many. All that commeth is vanitie.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Therefore remoue sorrow from thy heart, and put away euill from thy flesh; for child-hood & youth are vanitie.
1611 marginal noteOr, anger.
¶ vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
¶ Uanitie of vanities (saith the preacher) all is vanitie.
1611 marginal noteChap.1.2.
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Woe vnto them that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, and sinne, as it were with a cart rope:
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
And his breath as an ouerflowing streame, shall reach to the midst of the necke, to sift the nations with the sieue of vanitie: and there shalbe a bridle in the iawes of the people causing them to erre.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
1611 marginal noteDan.4.32.
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
That bringeth the princes to nothing; hee maketh the Iudges of the earth as vanitie.
1611 marginal noteIob 12.21. psa.107.40.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Behold, they are all vanitie, their works are nothing: their moulten images are winde and confusion.
¶ They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
¶ They that make a grauen image are all of them vanitie, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their owne witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
1611 marginal noteHeb. desireable.
1611 marginal notePsal. 115.4. &c.
¶ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
¶ When thou criest, let thy companies deliuer thee: but the winde shall cary them all away; Uanitie shall take them: but hee that putteth his trust in me, shall possesse the land, and shall inherit my holy mountaine.
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