שווא
Hebrew
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from Aramaic ܫܘܳܝܳܐ (š'waya, literally “even, equal”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- The Hebrew diacritical mark shva (◌ְ).
Descendants
References
- “שוא” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
- שווא on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
- Shva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Noun
- falsehood, futility
- (literary) emptiness, vanity, uselessness, pointlessness
- Tanach, Exodus 20:7:Lua error in Module:debug at line 160: 't' parameter has been renamed to 'tsrc'
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- לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת שֵׁם ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא כִּי לֹא יְנַקֶּה ה׳ אֵת אֲשֶׁר יִשָּׂא אֶת שְׁמוֹ לַשָּׁוְא׃
- Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.