שָׁוְא (šāwĕʾ) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning emptiness. It appears
54 times
in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7723).
Also rendered
vanity
false
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2338a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2338a)emptiness, vanity; evil, destructive, ruin, guile, idolatry, uselessness, vain; false, falsely, lie, lying
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
שָׁוְאnoun, masculine: emptiness, vanity
Strong's H7723שָׁוְא: evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain) KJV:false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 2338: שׁואšwʾ — Root of: שָׁוְא emptiness, vanity