H7723 שָׁוְא

שָׁוְא (shâvᵉʼ), Strong’s H7723: evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective;… KJV…

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shâvᵉʼ — 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.

Derived from שׁוֹא shôwʼ (https://besorah.bible/word/H7722) (a tempest)

Occurs 53 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁוְא n.[m.] emptiness, vanity

Where it occurs
- Exodus 20:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=7) — “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
- Exodus 23:1 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=1) — “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Deuteronomy 5:11 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=11) — “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
- Deuteronomy 5:20 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=20) — “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Isaiah 1:13 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=13) — Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand…
- Isaiah 5:18 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=18) — Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,
- Isaiah 30:28 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=28) — His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of…
- Isaiah 59:4 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=4) — No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief…
- Jeremiah 2:30 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=30) — “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a…
- Jeremiah 4:30 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=30) — You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself…