Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
worthless
Usage: 1) empty, vain 1a) empty (of vessels) 1b) empty, idle, worthless (ethically)
Reyq means “empty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7386 רֵיק רֵק (reyq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. reyq (rake) (or (shorter) req {rake}) adj. 1. empty 2. (figuratively) worthless It has 14 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include vain, empty, and emptied. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
reyq (rake) (or (shorter) req {rake}) adj. 1. empty 2. (figuratively) worthless [from H7324] KJV: emptied(-ty), vain (fellow, man). Root(s): H7324
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worthless
Usage: 1) empty, vain 1a) empty (of vessels) 1b) empty, idle, worthless (ethically)
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14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7386.
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7386, grouped by book.
Reyq (Strong's H7386) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "empty". reyq (rake) (or (shorter) req {rake}) adj. 1. empty 2. (figuratively) worthless
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H7386 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7386 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as vain, empty, and emptied. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.