Lexicon mataios: vain, useless Original Word: μάταιος, αία, αιονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: mataios Phonetic Spelling: (mat'-ah-yos) Short Definition: vain, unproductive, godless Definition: vain, unreal, ineffectual, unproductive; practically: godless. HELPS word-Studies 3152 mátaios (an adjective derived from 3155 /mátēn, "without purpose or ground") – properly, aimless (vain), without purpose; (figuratively) without profit because without basis, i.e. fleeting (transitory), ineffectual ("groundless"). 3152 /mátaios ("aimless") emphasizes the "absence of purpose or failure to attain any true purpose" (Moulton and Milligan). 3152 (mátaios) refers to what is "vain, unreal, ineffectual, unproductive" (Souter). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as maténDefinitionvain, useless NASB Translationfutile (1), useless (1), vain things (1), worthless (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3152: μάταιοςμάταιος, μάταια ( 1 Corinthians 15:17; ( 1 Peter 1:18)), μάταιον, also μάταιος, μάταιον ( James 1:26; Titus 3:9) (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 157; Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1) (from μάτην), the Sept. for הֶבֶל, שָׁוְא, כָּזָב (a lie), etc.; as in secular authors (Latin canus) devoid of force, truth, success, result ( A. V. uniformly vain): universally, ἡ θρησκεία, James 1:26; useless, to no purpose, ἡ πίστις, 1 Corinthians 15:17; foolish, διαλογισμοί, 1 Corinthians 3:20; ζητήσεις, Titus 3:9; given to vain things and leading away from salvation, ἀναστροφή, 1 Peter 1:18. τά μάταια, vain things, vanities, of heathen deities and their worship ( הֶבֶל, Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 10:3; הַהֶבֶל אַחֲרֵי יָלַך, πορεύεσθαι ὀπίσω τῶν ματαίων, 2 Kings 17:15; הֲבָלִים, μάταια, Jeremiah 8:19; εἴδωλα, Deuteronomy 32:21; Jeremiah 14:22): Acts 14:15. (Cf. Trench, Synonyms, § xlix.)
Strong's vain, vanity. From the base of maten; empty, i.e. (literally) profitless, or (specially), an idol -- vain, vanity. see GREEK maten |
