Emptiness
יֶ֫שַׁחStrong’s H3445yeshach (ye-shach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yeshach is the Hebrew word usually translated “emptiness your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.”
Meaning
- A sinking feeling, emptiness
How it's translated
- and emptiness your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Micah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יֶ֫שַׁח yeshach · emptiness
a sinking feeling, emptiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “emptiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EMP'TINESS, noun
[from empty.]
A state of being empty; a state of containing nothing except air; destitution; absence of matter; as the emptiness of a vessel.
- Void space; vacuity; vacuum.
- Want of solidity or substance; as the emptiness of light and shade.
- Unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; as the emptiness of earthly things.
- Vacuity of head; want of intellect or knowledge.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.