Words the Bible translates as empty
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kenosκενόςempty: containing nothing, whether a hand with nothing in it, words with no truth in them, or effort that comes to nothing
- mataiosμάταιοςfutile: empty of any real result, so it cannot deliver what it seems to promise
- shavשָׁוְאthat which has no substance and so cannot be trusted: emptiness that shows up as futile effort, as lying speech, and as worthless idols
- ruqרִיקto empty out: to make a container give up what it holds, whether by pouring out its liquid, tipping out its contents, or baring the weapon in its sheath.
- arahעָרָהto lay bare: strip off whatever covers something, or drain out whatever fills it, leaving it exposed or empty
- reqרֵיקempty: holding nothing, and so, of people or words, without worth or substance
- riqרִיקemptiness that yields nothing: a container with nothing in it, and so work, strength, or scheming that comes back with no result
- baqaqבָּקַקto empty out: to drain something completely, whether a country stripped of everything in it or a plan drained of all its force.
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- of a vine: luxuriant, spreading and running wild with growth.
- kenoōκενόωto empty oneself; to make oneself nothing in an act of self-humbling
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- to drain something of its force, meaning, or validity; to nullify or make void
- scholazōσχολάζωbe devoted/emptynot studied yet
- bohuבֹּהוּvoid: sheer emptiness, a land with nothing and no one in it; the word never stands alone, but only rhymed with its twin in the phrase rendered "formless and empty"
- mazehמָזֶהemptynot studied yet
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