27 occurrences

'Empty' in the Bible

And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit [was] empty; there was no water in it).

Verse ConceptsPrisonersEmpty ThingsDry Places

And the seven thin and ugly cows coming up after them, they [are] seven years, and the seven empty ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, they are [also] seven years of famine.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfSeven AnimalsSeven ThingsOut Of The EastScorchingThin Bodies

He divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put trumpets and empty jars in everyone's hand, with torches inside the jars.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalLampsWarfare, Strategies InThree To Four HundredTrumpets For BattleDividing Into Three GroupsThree Hundred And Above

They said, "If you [are] sending the ark of the God of Israel away, you must not send it away empty, but by all means return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will become known to you why his hand [is] not turned aside from you."

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodAnimal Sacrifices, Trespass OfferingEmpty ThingsGod Heals

Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow [is] the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty.

Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowEmpty ThingsGone AwayMissing Someone

The king sat at his seat {as before}, the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David's place was empty.

Verse ConceptsCustomWallsEmpty ThingsPeople Sitting DownSide Of People

{And then} on the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty. So Saul asked Jonathan his son, "Why did the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the feast?"

Verse ConceptsEmpty ThingsWhy Do People Not Do This?

Then he said to her, "Go, ask for yourself [some] containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. {You must collect as many empty containers as you can}!

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfDebtpotdrums

"Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it.

Verse ConceptsemptinessGod's WillGod Answering Prayers

{therefore} Job opens his mouth in empty talk-- without knowledge he multiplies words."

Verse ConceptsemptinessUseless WordsMere TalkToo Many Words

When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls--there it will be.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseCompassesNorth And SouthThings FallingWeather In The Last Dayscloudsinvesting

And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams--look, [he is] eating! And he wakes up and his inner self [is] empty. Or as when the thirsty person dreams--look, [he is] drinking! And he wakes up and look, [he is] faint, and his inner self [is] longing for water. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerBeing UnsatisfiedLike A Dream

For a fool speaks folly, and his {mind} does iniquity: to {behave wickedly}, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave [the] throat of [the] hungry empty, and he deprives [the] thirsty [of] drink.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy

And their nobles send their servants for water. They come to [the] pits, they find no water. They return [with] their vessels {empty}. They are ashamed, and they are confounded, and they cover their heads.

Verse ConceptsCisternsNoblesDry PlacesSeeking WaterShaming People

{Therefore} look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will send to him {decanters}, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.

Verse ConceptsBreaking Containers

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me [and] sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionSnakesStomachsEmpty People

And {make it stand} empty upon its burning coals so that it may become hot, and its copper may become molten and be melted in the midst of it, [so that] its uncleanness and its rust be consumed.

Verse ConceptsCopperHeatEmpty ThingsHot ThingsClean ObjectsWeed

Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy?

Verse ConceptsContinual SinEmptyingPeople Without Mercyrelentless

But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you would not prove to be empty in this case, so that you may be prepared just as I was saying,

Verse ConceptsUseless LabourPeople Sending PeoplePaul's Boasting

{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,

Verse ConceptsFutilityFaultsemptinessEloquenceCharmdesiresTemptation, Sources OfEnticersBoastersAllurements Of SinWantonnessLiving For The MaterialEnticingUseless WordsEscaping From PeopleEvil DesiresError

Bible Theasaurus

Abandon (107 instances)
Barren (62 instances)
Desert (358 instances)
Deserted (85 instances)
Devoid (13 instances)
Discharge (34 instances)
Slack (23 instances)
Spend (67 instances)
Vacate (1 instance)
Vacuous (1 instance)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּוּקה 
Buwqah 
Usage: 1

בּקק 
Baqaq 
Usage: 9

פּקד 
Paqad 
Usage: 303

רוּק 
Ruwq 
Usage: 19

ריק 
Riyq 
Usage: 12

רק ריק 
Reyq 
Usage: 14

ריקם 
Reyqam 
Usage: 16

תּהוּ 
Tohuw 
Usage: 20

κενός 
Kenos 
Usage: 15

σχολάζω 
Scholazo 
empty , give self to
Usage: 1