# H1892 הֶבֶל

הֶבֶל (hebel), Strong’s H1892: emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb KJV: [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.. Occurs 73 times.

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*hebel* — emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb

KJV: [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.

Derived from [הָבַל hâbal](https://besorah.bible/word/H1891) (to be vain in act, word, or expectation)

Occurs 73 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הֶ֫בֶל 73 n.m. vapour, breath

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 32:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=21) — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will…
- [1 Kings 16:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/16?v=13) — for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and with which they made Israel to sin, to…
- [1 Kings 16:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/16?v=26) — For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke…
- [2 Kings 17:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/17?v=15) — They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to…
- [Isaiah 30:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=7) — For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
- [Isaiah 49:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=4) — But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is…
- [Isaiah 57:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=13) — When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all…
- [Jeremiah 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=5) — The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked…
- [Jeremiah 8:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/8?v=19) — Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion?…
- [Jeremiah 10:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/10?v=3) — For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman…