הָבַל

ha.val
to become vain
Strong’s H1891Verb5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

they became vain2
do you act in vain1
you put vain hope1
are deluding1

In the text

Brown-Driver-Briggs

הָבַל vb. denom. act emptily, become vain
Qal they went after vanity and became vain
Hiph. cause to become vain (of false prophets) i.e. fill you with vain hopes.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.