H1892Noun, masculine73 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 9:29הֶבֶל
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
- Psalm 39:5הֶבֶל
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Proverbs 13:11מֵהֶבֶל
Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2הָבֶל
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Isaiah 30:7הֶבֶל
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- Jeremiah 2:5הַהֶבֶל
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
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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.