# הֶבֶל (hevel)

Israeli respelling: he-vel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1892. 64 Old Testament occurrences.

emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb

King James renderings: [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/hevel-h1892

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 32:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/21) — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jeal…
- [1 Kings 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/13) — For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD…
- [1 Kings 16:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/26) — For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israe…
- [2 Kings 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/15) — And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and…
- [Job 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/16) — I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- [Job 9:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/29) — If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- [Job 21:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/34) — How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
- [Job 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/12) — Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
- [Job 35:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/35/16) — Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- [Psalms 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/6) — I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
- [Psalms 39:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/5) — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether…
- [Psalms 39:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/6) — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- [Psalms 39:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/11) — When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- [Psalms 62:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/62/9) — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
- [Psalms 78:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/33) — Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- [Psalms 94:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/11) — The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
- [Psalms 144:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/4) — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- [Proverbs 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/11) — Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
- [Proverbs 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/6) — The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- [Proverbs 31:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/30) — Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/2) — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/14) — I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/1) — I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/11) — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexa…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/15) — Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, th…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/17) — Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/19) — And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/21) — For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave i…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/23) — For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/26) — For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to hea…
- [Ecclesiastes 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/19) — For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they h…
- [Ecclesiastes 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/4) — Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of…
- [Ecclesiastes 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/7) — Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
- [Ecclesiastes 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/8) — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is hi…
- [Ecclesiastes 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/16) — There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/7) — For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
- [Ecclesiastes 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/10) — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/2) — A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth hi…
- [Ecclesiastes 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/4) — For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
- [Ecclesiastes 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/9) — Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- [Ecclesiastes 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/11) — Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
- [Ecclesiastes 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/12) — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/6) — For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/15) — All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that pr…
- [Ecclesiastes 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/10) — And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so don…
- [Ecclesiastes 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/14) — There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again,…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/9) — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days o…
- [Ecclesiastes 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/11/8) — But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh i…
- [Ecclesiastes 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/11/10) — Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/8) — Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
- [Isaiah 30:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/7) — For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
- [Isaiah 49:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/4) — Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my wor…
- [Isaiah 57:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/13) — When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his t…
- [Jeremiah 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/5) — Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are bec…
- [Jeremiah 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/19) — Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her k…
- [Jeremiah 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/3) — For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
- [Jeremiah 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/8) — But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
- [Jeremiah 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/15) — They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- [Jeremiah 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/22) — Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? the…
- [Jeremiah 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/19) — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth,…
- [Jeremiah 51:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/18) — They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- [Lamentations 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/17) — As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
- [Jonah 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/2/8) — They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- [Zechariah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/2) — For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went t…