Word

רִיק

rîyq · H7385 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

empty

State in which a container does not contain anything

Examples
Jeremiah 51:34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.
vain

Literally: empty; hence: state in which an event does not serve a useful purpose and is bound to fail

Examples
Leviticus 26:16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will summon a sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the soul languish; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it.
Leviticus 26:20 ‘Your strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
Job 39:16 “She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers; Though her labor is for nothing, she is unconcerned,

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אָהַבto love 1
הָגָהto utter, to meditate, to moan 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יְגִיעַfruit of labor, labor 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 9

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

דַּיsufficiency 2
כְּלִיvessel, utensil, weapon 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

κενός kenós · G2756 · without anything, empty, empty-handed: Greek κενός renders Hebrew רִיק across its core semantic range of emptiness/vanity, serving as the standard LXX equivalent for both literal emptiness and figurative futility/purposelessness.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Non-Contain002002001004: This adjective's core sense of hollowness or emptiness underlies its figurative uses, though the sampled citations here (Leviticus 26:16, 20; Job 39:16; Psalm 2:1) attest the derived sense of futility rather than literal physical emptiness.
Fail002003003013: Leviticus 26:16 warns that Israel will "sow your seed uselessly," 26:20 that strength will be "consumed uselessly," Job 39:16 that the ostrich's "labor is in vain," and Psalm 2:1 that the nations "devise a vain thing," all directly attesting the sense of futile, unproductive effort.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רוּק rûwq · H7324 · to empty, to pour out, to draw · 19×רֵיקָם rêyqâm · H7387 · empty, without (a gift) · 16×רֵיק rêyq · H7386 · empty, to be emptied out, to be stripped (of one's possession) · 14×רִיקrîyq · H7385

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7385. riyq רִיק noun [masculine] emptiness, vanity; — chiefly in adverb phrase לְרִיק…

H7385. riyq
רִיק noun [masculine] emptiness, vanity; — chiefly in adverb phrase לְרִיק Isa 46:4; Job 39:16 in vain (of labour without benefit), so ׳לָר Lev 26:16, Lev 26:20 (H), Isa 65:23; and as adverb accusative רִיק Isa 30:7; Psa 73:13, probably also Psa 2:1 (most = empty scheme as רֵיק 2) compare Psa 4:3 (read probably רֵיק); דִיק בְּדֵי Jer 51:58 = Hab 2:13. — Jer 51:34 see רֵיק 1 above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Non-Contain1 occurrence Fail11 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0