{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7723",
  "lemma": "שָׁוְא",
  "transliteration": "shâvᵉʼ",
  "definition": "evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective;…",
  "kjv": "false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.",
  "occurrences": 53,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H7722",
      "lemma": "שׁוֹא",
      "transliteration": "shôwʼ",
      "meaning": "a tempest",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שָׁוְא n.[m.] emptiness, vanity"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 20:7",
      "text": "“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:1",
      "text": "“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 5:11",
      "text": "“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 5:20",
      "text": "“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 1:13",
      "text": "Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 5:18",
      "text": "Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 30:28",
      "text": "His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 59:4",
      "text": "No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 2:30",
      "text": "“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 4:30",
      "text": "You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=30"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H7723",
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  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}