'Things' in the Bible

and he saith to them, 'Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people -- these!

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone.

And the woman hath a calf of the stall in the house, and she hasteth and slaughtereth it, and taketh flour, and kneadeth, and baketh it unleavened things,