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  "type": "word",
  "id": "G3152",
  "lemma": "μάταιος",
  "transliteration": "mátaios",
  "definition": "empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol",
  "kjv": "vain, vanity",
  "occurrences": 81,
  "language": "Greek",
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    {
      "id": "G3155",
      "lemma": "μάτην",
      "transliteration": "mátēn",
      "meaning": "folly",
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    {
      "reference": "Acts 14:15",
      "text": "“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of the same nature as you, and bring you good news, that you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/14?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 3:20",
      "text": "And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/3?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 15:17",
      "text": "If Messiah has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Titus 3:9",
      "text": "but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/3?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jacob 1:26",
      "text": "If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/1?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Peter 1:18",
      "text": "knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-peter/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Wisdom of Solomon 13:1",
      "text": "For truly all men who had no perception of God were foolish by nature, and didn’t gain power to know him who exists…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/13?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Wisdom of Solomon 15:8",
      "text": "Also, laboring to an evil end, he molds a vain god out of the same clay, he who, having but a little before been made…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/15?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Sirach 31:5",
      "text": "",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/31?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "3 Maccabees 6:11",
      "text": "Don’t let the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, ‘Their god didn’t deliver…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/6?v=11"
    }
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