vain imagination
14 occurrences across 2 Arabic/Persian roots
و- ه- م (w-h-m) — illusion; fancy; illusions
“vain imagination” accounts for
13 of
90 occurrences of this root
(14%)
(w-h-m) — illusion; fancy; illusions
“vain imagination” accounts for 13 of 90 occurrences of this root (14%)
Forms seen
Translation spectrum for this root
vain imagining 21% idle fancy 18% vain imagination 14% idle imagining 4% fancy 4% vain hope 2% vague fancy 2% superstitious 2% imagine 2% imagination 2% what their own hearts have devised 1% vain fancy 1% vain and worthless 1% vain and profitless 1% vain and empty 1% thou who art even as nothing 1% suspicion 1% superstition 1% prompted by their own idle fancy 1% prompted by the vain imaginations his heart hath devised 1% people of doubt 1% own imagining 1% men’s idle fancy 1% imagined 1% imaginations which your hearts have devised 1% imaginations of their heart 1% idle imagination 1% idle and faulty conception 1% fleeting fancy 1% doubt 1% delusion 1% deluded 1% conceive 1% are still devising 1%
Examples
gleaningsGWB §149: باوهام: vain imaginationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §141: الأَوْهامِ: vain imaginationsgleaningsGWB §395: بتوهّمات: through the vain imaginationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §187: أَوْهامُ: vain imaginationsgleaningsGWB §413: اوهام: vain imaginationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §733: أَوْهامُ: vain imaginationsgleaningsGWB §610: والوهم: vain imaginationprayers-and-meditationsP&M §739: أَوْهامِ: vain imaginationsgleaningsGWB §63: أَوْهَامُ: vain imaginationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §74: وَالأَوْهامِ: vain imaginationsgleaningsGWB §9: موهوم: vain imaginationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §796: وَالأَوْهامِ: and vain imaginationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §835: وَالْأَوْهَامِ.: vain imaginations
ظ- ن- ن (ẓ-n-n) — conjecture; think; suppositions
“vain imagination” accounts for
1 of
102 occurrences of this root
(1%)
(ẓ-n-n) — conjecture; think; suppositions
“vain imagination” accounts for 1 of 102 occurrences of this root (1%)
Forms seen
Translation spectrum for this root
idle fancy 30% fancy 10% vain imagining 8% thought 4% imagining 4% imagined 3% doubt 3% vain fancy 2% ye imagine 1% what they fondly imagine 1% we deem you 1% we deem 1% ways of their idle fancy 1% vain imagination 1% vain desire 1% thoughts they think 1% thou hast imagined 1% thou dost imagine thyself 1% thinkest thou 1% thinkest 1% think ye 1% them that walk after the vain imaginings which their hearts devise 1% superstition 1% still imagine 1% mine own fancy 1% mere conceit thou dost follow 1% mere conceit 1% is thy fancy 1% imagine 1% imagination 1% idle imagining 1% idle desire 1% held it as certain 1% have they no thought 1% have imputed to 1% hast thou fondly imagined 1% hast deemed thyself 1% fancied 1% false imagining 1% doubtful 1% dost thou believe 1% didst thou imagine 1% believe ye 1% belief 1% bear in mind 1%
See Also
Other English words/phrases that share the same Arabic/Persian roots: