Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7385
רִיק
riqreek
vain
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rîyq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7385is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7385
emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
The King James renders it: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
riq is rendered "vain". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Leviticus 26:16לָרִיק֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- vanity4
- to the emptiness3
- emptiness2
- to emptiness2
- and vanity1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וָרִ֖יק1
- לְרִ֖יק1
- לְרִ֣יק1
- לָרִיק֙1
- לָרִ֖יק1
- לָרִ֔יק1
- רִ֑יק1
- רִ֭יק1
- רִ֔יק1
- רִ֛יק1
- רִ֥יק1
- רִֽיק׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Leviticus
two uses
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- לָרִיק֙larikpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the emptiness
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
- לָרִ֖יקlarikpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the emptiness
Job
one use
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
- לְרִ֖יקlerikpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to emptiness
Psalms
three uses
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- רִֽיק׃riknoun · masculine singulartagged: vanity
How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
- רִ֑יקriknoun · masculine singulartagged: vanity
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
- רִ֭יקriknoun · masculine singulartagged: vanity
Isaiah
three uses
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- וָרִ֖יקvarikconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and vanity
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
- לְרִ֣יקlerikpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to emptiness
They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
- לָרִ֔יקlarikpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the emptiness
Jeremiah
two uses
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- רִ֔יקriknoun · masculine singulartagged: emptiness
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- רִ֛יקriknoun · masculine singulartagged: emptiness
Habakkuk
one use
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- רִ֥יקriknoun · masculine singulartagged: vanity
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.