Strong’s G3152 · Greek
μάταιος
mátaios · mat'-ah-yos
Origin from the base of μάτην (G3155);
Meaning empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol
In the King James Version vain, vanity.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 14:15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
- 1 Corinthians 3:20And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
- Titus 3:9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
- James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- 1 Peter 1:18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.