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# רִיק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7385

**emptiness** — used 12 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

emptiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7385/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִיק²: emptiness, vanity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7385/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] emptiness, vanity;—chiefly in adv. phr. לְרִיק Is 49:4 Jb 39:16 in vain (of labour without benefit), so לָר׳ Lv 26:16, 20 (H), Is 65:23; and as adv. acc. רִיק Is 30:7 ψ 73:13, prob. also 2:1 (most = empty scheme as רֵיק 2) cf. ψ 4:3 (read prob. רֵיק); בְּדֵי רִיק Je 51:58 = Hb 2:13.—Je 51:34 v. רֵיק 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 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: emptiness (9); of emptiness (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.1/#tree)

לָ֭מָּה רָגְשׁ֣וּ גוֹיִ֑ם וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים יֶהְגּוּ־רִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* why? do.they.plot nations and peoples do.they.devise? emptiness

*JPS 1917:* Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

[Psalms 73:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.13/#tree)

אַךְ־רִ֭יק זִכִּ֣יתִי לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* surely emptiness I.have.kept.pure heart my and I.have.washed in innocence palms my

*JPS 1917:* Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7385.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7385/): 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).