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H1892Hebrew

הֶבֶל הֲבֵל

Definition and meaning

hebel (heh'bel) (or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}) n-m. 1. emptiness or vanity 2. (figuratively) something transitory and unsatisfactory 3. often used as an adverb [from H1891] KJV: X altogether, vain, vanity. Root(s): H1891

Tagged KJV passages

64 matching verses - 73.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Matched English: vanities
1 Kings 16:13

For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Matched English: vanities
1 Kings 16:26

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Matched English: vanities
2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Matched English: vanity
Job 7:16

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Matched English: vanity
Job 9:29

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Matched English: vain
Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Matched English: vain
Job 27:12

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Matched English: altogether
Job 35:16

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Matched English: vain
Psalms 31:6

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Matched English: vanities
Psalms 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Matched English: vanity
Psalms 39:6

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Matched English: vain
Psalms 39:11

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Matched English: vanity
Psalms 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Matched English: vanity, vanity
Psalms 78:33

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Matched English: vanity
Psalms 94:11

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Matched English: vanity
Psalms 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Matched English: vanity
Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Matched English: vanity
Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Matched English: vanity
Proverbs 31:30

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Matched English: vain
Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Matched English: Vanity, vanities, vanity, vanities, vanity
Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Matched English: vanity
Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

Matched English: vanity
Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Matched English: vanity