רִיק
riq
“vain”
Definition
emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
from H7324 (רוּק);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
רִיק appears 11 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hoststhat the labor of the people only feeds the fire,and the nations weary themselves in vain?
But I said, “I have labored in vain,I have spent My strength in futility and vanity;yet My vindication is with the LORD,and My reward is with My God.”
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me;he has crushed me.He has set me aside like an empty vessel;he has swallowed me like a monster;he filled his belly with my delicaciesand vomited me out.
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own,with no concern that her labor was in vain.
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.