rik · emptiness, in vain

What it means

rik (רִיק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “emptiness, in vain”.

Emptiness; a useless thing. "In vain" is without result.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Something empty, worthless.
2. In vain, for nothing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• vain ×8
• nothing ×2
• as an empty ×1
• emptiness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Habakkuk×1

• Leviticus 26:16

  then I will do this to you: I will appoint over you terror, wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and drain the life; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

• Leviticus 26:20

  And your strength will be spent in vain, and your land will not give its yield, and the tree of the land will not give its fruit.

• Job 39:16

  She treats harshly her young as if they were not hers; in vain is her labor, without dread,

• Psalms 2:1

  Why are the nations in turmoil, and the peoples meditate a vain thing?

• Psalms 4:2

  Sons of man, how long will my honor be turned into humiliation? How long will you love what is vain and seek a lie? Selah.

• Psalms 73:13

  Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart and washed my palms in innocence.

• Isaiah 30:7

  And Egypt helps with vapor and emptiness; therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”

• Isaiah 49:4

  But I said, “In vain I have worn myself out; for emptiness and vapor I have spent my strength; yet surely my right is with YHWH, and my wages with my Elohim.”

• Isaiah 65:23

  They will not wear themselves out in vain, nor bear children for terror; for they are the offspring of the blessed of YHWH, and their offshoots with them.

• Jeremiah 51:34

  “He has devoured me, he has crushed me, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he has set me down as an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has driven me out.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Habakkuk 2:13

  Is it not, look, from YHWH Tsevaot that peoples labor for the fire, and nations grow weary for nothing?