- ματαιότης
- vanity, purposelessness
- vanity, emptiness, unreality, purposelessness, ineffectiveness, instability, frailty; false religion.
- ματαιότης
- futility
- G:N-F
- ματαιότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< μάταιος), [in LXX for הֶבֶל,, and nearly 40 times in Ec; for שָׁוְא, Psa.25:4, al.; רִיק, etc. ;]Refs
Psa.31:6 39:5 62:9, al.
vanity, emptiness, frailty, folly:; τ. νοός, Eph.4:17 (elsewhere only in Pollux, 6, 134, and Eccl.).†Refs
Rom.8:20, 2Pe.2:18
(AS)
1) what is devoid of truth and appropriateness
2) perverseness, depravity
3) frailty, want of vigour
2) perverseness, depravity
3) frailty, want of vigour
ματαιότης
mataiotēs
mat-ah-yot'-ace
From G3152; inutility; figuratively transientness; morally depravity
KJV Usage: vanity.