# שָׁוְא (shave)

Israeli respelling: sha-ve. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7723. 48 Old Testament occurrences.

evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)

King James renderings: false(-ly), lie, lying, 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/shave-h7723

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 20:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/7) — Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
- [Exodus 23:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/1) — Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- [Deuteronomy 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/11) — Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
- [Deuteronomy 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/20) — Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- [Job 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/3) — So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- [Job 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/11) — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- [Job 15:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/31) — Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- [Job 31:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/5) — If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- [Job 35:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/35/13) — Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
- [Psalms 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/12/2) — They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- [Psalms 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/24/4) — He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- [Psalms 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/26/4) — I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- [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 41:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/6) — And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- [Psalms 60:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/11) — Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- [Psalms 89:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/47) — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- [Psalms 108:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/108/12) — Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- [Psalms 119:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/37) — Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
- [Psalms 127:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/127/1) — Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- [Psalms 127:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/127/2) — It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- [Psalms 139:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/20) — For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
- [Psalms 144:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/8) — Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- [Psalms 144:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/11) — Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
- [Proverbs 30:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/8) — Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- [Isaiah 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/13) — Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;…
- [Isaiah 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/18) — Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
- [Isaiah 30:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/28) — And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there sha…
- [Isaiah 59:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/4) — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquit…
- [Jeremiah 2:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/30) — In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- [Jeremiah 4:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/30) — And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, t…
- [Jeremiah 6:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/29) — The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
- [Jeremiah 18:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/15) — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancien…
- [Jeremiah 46:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/11) — Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
- [Lamentations 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/14) — Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have…
- [Ezekiel 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/24) — For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
- [Ezekiel 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/6) — They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that…
- [Ezekiel 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/7) — Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
- [Ezekiel 13:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/8) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/9) — And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither sha…
- [Ezekiel 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/23) — Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am t…
- [Ezekiel 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/23) — And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity…
- [Ezekiel 21:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/29) — Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, w…
- [Ezekiel 22:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/28) — And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when…
- [Hosea 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/4) — They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- [Hosea 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/11) — Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of th…
- [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…
- [Malachi 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/14) — Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the…