Strong's H7723

שָׁוְא

Transliteration

shâvᵉʼ

Pronunciation

shawv

Definition

evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)

KJV usage

false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

Derivation

or שַׁו; from the same as H7722 (שׁוֹא) in the sense of desolating;

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.