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# רֵיק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7386

**empty** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

empty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7386/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵיק: adj. empty, vain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7386/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. empty, vain;—m. abs. רֵק Gn 37:24 + 2 times; f. רֵקָה Ez 24:11 Is 29:8; mpl. רֵ(י)קִים Ju 7:16 +; fpl. רֵקוֹת Gn 41:27;— empty, of vessels 2 K 4:3 Ju 7:16 Ez 24:11 + (prob.) Je 14:3 (רֵיקִים for רֵיקָם), 51:34 (רֵיק for רִיק); of pit Gn 37:24 (J), lap Ne 5:13, ears of grain Gn 41:27 (E; דַּקּוֹת v 6, 7, 23, 24); רֵקָה נַפְשׁוֹ Is 29:8 (cf. 32:6 √ 1). empty, idle, worthless, ethically; אנשׁים ריקים worthless fellows Ju 9:4; 11:3 2 Ch 13:7, so הָרֵקִים alone (as subst.) 2 S 6:20; מְרַדֵּף רֵיקִים Pr 12:11 AV RV of persons; vain, unprofitable things, 28:19 (v. Toy); דָּבָר ר׳ מִן Dt 32:47 (D) a thing too empty (of significance) for you; + (prob.) ψ 4:3 (רֵיק for MT רִיק) love an empty thing (‖ כזב), of abortive course of action.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: empty (7); worthless (2); worthless \[things\] (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.11/#tree)

עֹבֵ֣ד אַ֭דְמָתוֹ יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־לָ֑חֶם וּמְרַדֵּ֖ף רֵיקִ֣ים חֲסַר־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].tills land his he.will.be.satisfied food and \[one.who\].pursues worthless.\[things\] \[is\].lacking of.heart

*JPS 1917:* He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things is void of understanding.

[Proverbs 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.19/#tree)

עֹבֵ֣ד אַ֭דְמָתוֹ יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־לָ֑חֶם וּמְרַדֵּ֥ף רֵ֝קִ֗ים יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־רִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].tills land his he.will.be.satisfied food and \[one.who\].pursues worthless.\[things\] he.will.be.satisfied poverty

*JPS 1917:* He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things shall have poverty enough.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7386.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7386/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).