רִיק riq
Hebrew word for “vain” · Strong’s H7385 · used 12 times in 12 verses
Meaning
emptiness, vanity, empty, idle, vain
How it is translated
Glosses given for riq in context, with how often each is used:
- emptiness 7
- vanity 5
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 26 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Job 39 (1), Psalms 2 (1), Psalms 4 (1), Psalms 73 (1), Isaiah 30 (1), Isaiah 49 (1), Isaiah 65 (1), Habakkuk 2 (1)
Forms
- ריק 6
- לריק 5
- וריק 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with riq more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָגֵעַ yaga “be weary/toil” 4
- לְאֹם leom “people” 3
- בֶּהָלָה behalah “dismay” 2
- יָעֵף yaaph “to faint” 2
- דַּי day “sufficiency” 2
- הֶבֶל hevel “vanity” 2
- כֹּחַ koach “strength” 2
- אֵת et “with” 3
- כָּלָה kalah “to end” 2
- זֶרַע zera “seed” 2
- בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 2
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 2
Key verses
The verses using riq that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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 cause sorrow of heart:…
- 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 fruits.
- 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 — Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- 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 — Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
- 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 — 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 work with my God.
- 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 — 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 dragon, he hath filled…
- 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 people shall labour in…
- 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?
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.