# רִיק (riq)

Israeli respelling: riq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7385. 12 Old Testament occurrences.

emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain

King James renderings: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/riq-h7385

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 26:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/16) — I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and caus…
- [Leviticus 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/20) — And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit…
- [Job 39:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/16) — She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
- [Psalms 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/2/1) — Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- [Psalms 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/2) — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- [Psalms 73:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/13) — Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
- [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 65:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/23) — They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
- [Jeremiah 51:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/34) — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dr…
- [Jeremiah 51:58](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/58) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peo…
- [Habakkuk 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/13) — Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?