Strong’s G3153 · Greek
ματαιότης
mataiótēs · mat-ah-yot'-ace
Origin from μάταιος (G3152);
Meaning inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity
In the King James Version vanity.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Romans 8:20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- 2 Peter 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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.