The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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הבל‏ n.m. vapor; vanity

vapor PTA, Syr, JBA, Man, LJLA. TN Deut28:29 : היך מה דממשש סמייה בהבלייה/בקבילה/‏ as the blind man groups around in the fogs/darkness/. TgPs90:9 : היך הבל פומא דסתווא‏ like the mouth vapor of winter.

fig.: vanity, a thing that is like nothing (< BH) Sam, Syr, LJLA. TgQoh1:2 and passim : הבל הבלין עלמא הדין‏ . false god LJLA. PJ Deut32:21 they angered Him with their nothings. DMordecai:25 : ויבהתון עממיא מפיסליהון והבליהון וטעוותהון‏ .

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 158b; DJBA: 360a; Jastrow: 330; Levy Ch-W: 1:192; Tal Sam: 198; Cook,Qumran: 61;

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Derivatives:

hbl vb. D to do vain things