הֶ֫בֶל
he.vel
1. vapour, breath
a. breath, vapour
b. vanity (fig.)
adv
2. vainly
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 64 verses
- Isaiah 30:7 הֶ֥בֶל
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- Isaiah 49:4 וְהֶ֖בֶל
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
- Isaiah 57:13 הָ֑בֶל
When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”
- Jeremiah 2:5 הַהֶ֖בֶל
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- Jeremiah 8:19 בְּהַבְלֵ֥י
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Jeremiah 10:3 הֶ֣בֶל
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Jeremiah 10:8 הֲבָלִ֖ים
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
- Jeremiah 10:15 הֶ֣בֶל
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jeremiah 14:22 בְּהַבְלֵ֤י
Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
- Jeremiah 16:19 הֶ֖בֶל
O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
- Jeremiah 51:18 הֶ֣בֶל
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Lamentations 4:17 הָ֑בֶל
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- Jonah 2:8 הַבְלֵי־
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Zechariah 10:2 הֶ֖בֶל
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
