BDB8496 [H7723]

1. emptiness, nothingness, vanity: תְּשׁוּעַת אָרָם ׳שׁ Ps 60:13 vain (is) man's deliverance, = Ps 108:13 לָכֶם ׳שׁ Ps 127:2 it is vain (useless) for you; Ps 89:48 for (עַל) what nothingness hast thou created man ? compare ׳יַרְחֵי שׁ Job 7:3 ׳הַבְלֵי שׁ Ps 31:7 (idols) = Jonah 2:9, compare Jer 18:15 + Hos 5:11 ᵐ5 (for צָו); ׳מִנְחַת שׁ Isa 1:13 of ineffective offering to ׳י; ׳נשׂא לַשּׁ (לֹא) Exod 20:7 (twice in verse) take up name of God in vain (to no good purpose) = Deut 5:11 (twice in verse), compare Ps 24:4; Ps 139:20 [ᵑ0 lifted up in vain are thy foes, but read שְׁמֶ֑ךָ for עָרֶיךָ, compare נשׂא 1 b (7); al. עָלֶיךָ, see II. עָר]; ׳היה שׁ Hos 12:12 become nothing (We ׳עשׂה שׁ, and so 3); ׳ראה שׁ Ps 119:37 adverb ׳לַשּׁ in vain Jer 2:30; Jer 4:30; Jer 6:29; Jer 46:11 ׳שׁ Ps 127:1 (twice in verse); Mal 3:14.

2. emptiness of speech, || lying, ׳שׁ וּדְבַר כָּזָב Prov 30:8 ׳דבּר שׁ Ps 12:3; Ps 41:7; Ps 144:8; Ps 144:11; Isa 59:4; Ezek 13:8 ׳אָלוֺת שׁ Hos 10:4 + Hos 12:2 ᵐ5 We and others (for שֹׁד); ׳הָלַךְ עִםשֿׁ Job 31:5 (|| מִרְמָה); ׳עֵד שׁ Deut 5:17 (= עֵד שָֽׁקֶר Exod 20:16); compare ׳שֵׁמַע שׁ Exod 23:1 (E); of false (empty) prophecy ׳חֲזוֺן שׁ Ezek 12:24, ׳חָזוּ שׁ Lam 2:14 see also Ezek 13:6; Ezek 13:7; Ezek 13:9; Ezek 13:23; Ezek 21:34; Ezek 22:28; Job 35:13 (or empty complaining, below 1); ׳קסם שׁ Ezek 21:28 חֲלֹמוֺת ׳הַשּׁ Zech 10:2.

3. of conduct, worthlessness (Buhl below 1, 2); ׳מְרתי שׁ worthless men Ps 26:4; Job 11:11 worthless motives (in figurative) ׳חַבְלֵי הַשּׁ Isa 5:18 ׳נָפַת שׁ Isa 30:28 (i.e. sifting out the worthless; al. sieve of (bringing) disappointment); play on meanings in Job 15:31 (twice in verse), compare Dr^{Job, Psalt. 464}.