# H7387 רֵיקָם

רֵיקָם (rêyqâm), Strong’s H7387: emptily; figuratively (objective) ineffectually, (subjective) undeservedly KJV: without cause, empty, in vain, void.. Occurs 16 times.

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*rêyqâm* — emptily; figuratively (objective) ineffectually, (subjective) undeservedly

KJV: without cause, empty, in vain, void.

Derived from [רֵיק rêyq](https://besorah.bible/word/H7386) (empty)

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רֵיקָם adv. emptily, vainly
- 1 in empty condition, empty = with empty hands
- 2 in vain, without effect

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=42) — Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have…
- [Exodus 3:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=21) — I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go…
- [Exodus 23:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=15) — You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the…
- [Exodus 34:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=20) — You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You…
- [Deuteronomy 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=13) — When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
- [Deuteronomy 16:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/16?v=16) — Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which he chooses: in the…
- [1 Samuel 6:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=3) — They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass…
- [2 Samuel 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=22) — From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return…
- [Isaiah 55:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/55?v=11) — so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and…
- [Jeremiah 14:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/14?v=3) — Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their…