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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

2. (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

3. (n.) Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.

Greek

3153. mataiotes -- vanity, emptiness
... vanity, emptiness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: mataiotes Phonetic
Spelling: (mat-ah-yot'-ace) Short Definition: vanity, purposelessness ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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Strong's Hebrew

922. bohu -- emptiness
... 921, 922. bohu. 923 . emptiness. Transliteration: bohu Phonetic Spelling:
(bo'-hoo) Short Definition: void. Word ... 2). emptiness, void. ...
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8414. tohu -- formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
... 8413, 8414. tohu. 8415 . formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness.
Transliteration: tohu Phonetic Spelling: (to'-hoo) Short Definition: waste. ...
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7723. shav -- emptiness, vanity
... 7722, 7723. shav. 7724 . emptiness, vanity. Transliteration: shav Phonetic
Spelling: (shawv) Short Definition: vain. Word Origin ...
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4003. mebuqah -- emptiness
... mebuqah. 4004 . emptiness. Transliteration: mebuqah Phonetic Spelling:
(meb-oo-kah') Short Definition: desolate. ... void. From the same as buwqah; emptiness -- ...
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950. buqah -- emptiness
... 949, 950. buqah. 951 . emptiness. Transliteration: buqah Phonetic Spelling:
(boo-kaw') Short Definition: emptied. Word Origin from ...
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3445. yeshach -- perhaps emptiness
... 3444, 3445. yeshach. 3446 . perhaps emptiness. Transliteration: yeshach
Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-shakh) Short Definition: vileness. ...
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7385b. riq -- emptiness, vanity
... 7385a, 7385b. riq. 7386 . emptiness, vanity. Transliteration: riq Short
Definition: vain. Word Origin from riq Definition emptiness ...
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1892. hebel -- vapor, breath
... root Definition vapor, breath NASB Word Usage breath (5), delusion (2), emptily
(1), emptiness (2), fleeting (2), fraud (1), futile (1), futility (13), idols (7 ...
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3720. kaphan -- hunger, famine
... famine. From kaphan; hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain) -- famine.
see HEBREW kaphan. 3719, 3720. kaphan. 3721 . Strong's Numbers.
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7385. riyq -- to make empty, empty out
... From ruwq; emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain -- empty,
to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity. see HEBREW ruwq. 7384, 7385. ...
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Library

Letter v. --On Emptiness of Heart.
... THE FRUIT THEREOF. Letter V."On Emptiness of Heart. On Emptiness of heart. ... I am not
at all surprised that this great emptiness seems like a support to you. ...
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'Lying Vanities'
... forced home to Israel by sufferings and exile, that to turn from Jehovah to false
gods was to turn from the sure source of tender care to lies and emptiness. ...
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Of Another Kind of Perverted Men
... else. These men have surrendered themselves to inward passivity in their
emptiness; and live without preference for any one thing. ...
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The Opinions of Valentinus, with those of his Disciples and Others ...
... But along with it there exists a power which I term a Gourd; and along with this
Gourd there exists a power which again I term Utter-Emptiness. ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xi the opinions of valentinus.htm

Showing the Three Ways by which one Enters into the God-Seeing ...
... without in all the virtues, and within must be unencumbered, and as empty of every
outward work as if he did not work at all: for if his emptiness is troubled ...
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Showing How Some Men Live Contrary to These Exercises
... take away anything from them; for they have, in their own opinion, transcended all
customs and all virtues, and have entered into the pure emptiness, and are ...
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The Fulness of Christ
... Think of that solitary figure of the Christ reared up, as it were, before the whole
race of man, as able to replenish all their emptiness with His fulness, and ...
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The Two Paths
... There must be consciousness of our own emptiness, weakness, and need; there must
be penitent recognition of our own ill-desert and lamentation over that. ...
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Of Three Kinds of Most Inward Practices
... This is the first way, and it is the way of emptiness; for it makes a man empty
of all things, and lifts him up above activity and above all the virtues. ...
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To the Reader. Christian Reader
... prejudices following upon the neglect of them, but above all, thou shalt find him
so fully setting forth the sinfulness of sin, and the utter emptiness of self ...
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Thesaurus

Emptiness (17 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the
emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach. ...Emptiness (17 Occurrences). ...
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Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality or state of being vain; want of substance
to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. ...
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Vacancy (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from
employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. ...
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Vanities (14 Occurrences)
... In Acts 14:15 we have mataios, "empty," translated "vanities" (of idols); mataiotes,
"emptiness," "transitoriness" (Romans 8:20, "The creation was subjected to ...
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Deceiving (18 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Job 15:31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
for emptiness shall be his reward. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV). ...
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Pelican (5 Occurrences)
... shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch
over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness." Here the ...
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Empty (84 Occurrences)
... Version (British and American) takes the Hebrew word in its original sense of "pouring
out," rendering "Israel is a luxuriant vine"); tohu, "emptiness" (Job 26 ...
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Worthless (103 Occurrences)
... You are all physicians of no value. (See NAS RSV NIV). Job 15:31 Let him not trust
in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward. (See NIV) ...
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Vainglory (2 Occurrences)
... or low, small or great; vanity is applicable only to small objects; pride is therefore
good or bad; vanity is always bad; it is always emptiness or nothingness ...
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Vile (59 Occurrences)
... Villany occurs but twice in the King James Version (Isaiah 32:6 Jeremiah 29:23),
and signifies emptiness or folly (so the Revised Version (British and American ...
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Bible Concordance

Emptiness (17 Occurrences)

2 Peter 2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
(WEB)

Job 6:18 Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
(YLT)

Job 7:3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
(See RSV)

Job 15:31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
(WEB NAS RSV)

Psalms 7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; ( Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary; )
(See JPS)

Ecclesiastes 5:7 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 24:10 It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
(YLT)

Isaiah 29:21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
(YLT)

Isaiah 34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Isaiah 40:17 All the nations 'are' as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
(YLT RSV)

Isaiah 40:23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;
(YLT)

Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.
(DBY YLT NAS)

Isaiah 44:9 Framers of a graven image 'are' all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they 'are', They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
(YLT)

Isaiah 49:4 And I said, 'For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment 'is' with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.
(YLT)

Isaiah 59:4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
(YLT)

Micah 6:14 Thou shalt eat, and not be satisfied, and thine emptiness shall remain in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take away, and not save; and what thou savest will I give up to the sword.
(DBY)

Nahum 2:10 She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain 'is' in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Emptiness

Related Terms

Vanity (100 Occurrences)

Vacancy (3 Occurrences)

Vanities (14 Occurrences)

Deceiving (18 Occurrences)

Pelican (5 Occurrences)

Empty (84 Occurrences)

Worthless (103 Occurrences)

Vainglory (2 Occurrences)

Vile (59 Occurrences)