# ματαιότης (mataiotēs)

Strong’s G3153. 3 New Testament occurrences.

vanity, emptiness, unreality, purposelessness, ineffectiveness, instability, frailty; false religion.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/mataiotes-g3153

## Occurrences

- [Romans 8:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/8/20) — For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- [Ephesians 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/4/17) — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- [2 Peter 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-peter/2/18) — For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from the…