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title: רִיק — emptiness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִיק (7385), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: emptiness. BDB 1906: emptiness, vanity. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִיק

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«רִיק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **emptiness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 7385 · **BDB:** רִיק²

### Glosses

emptiness (9); of.emptiness (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

emptiness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7385/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

emptiness, vanity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7385/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] emptiness, vanity;—chiefly in adv. phr. לְרִיק Is 49:4 Jb 39:16 in vain (of labour without benefit), so לָר׳ Lv 26:16, 20 (H), Is 65:23; and as adv. acc. רִיק Is 30:7 ψ 73:13, prob. also 2:1 (most = empty scheme as רֵיק 2) cf. ψ 4:3 (read prob. רֵיק); בְּדֵי רִיק Je 51:58 = Hb 2:13.—Je 51:34 v. רֵיק 1.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רִיק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7385/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 2:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.1/)

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לָ֭מָּה רָגְשׁ֣וּ גוֹיִ֑ם וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים יֶהְגּוּ־רִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* why? do.they.plot nations and peoples do.they.devise? emptiness

*JPS 1917:* Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

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[Psalms 73:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.13/)

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אַךְ־רִ֭יק זִכִּ֣יתִי לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* surely emptiness I.have.kept.pure heart my and I.have.washed in innocence palms my

*JPS 1917:* Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;

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