Empty; Emptier
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
emp´ti , emp´ti - ẽr ( κενός , kenós ): "Empty," adjective meaning void, etc., as the translation of ריק , rēḳ , ריק , rı̄ḳ , ריקם , rēḳām , etc., occurs in the literal sense of "with nothing" ( Genesis 31:42; Job 22:9 ); in 2 Samuel 1:22 , it is equivalent to "in vain," "hungry" ( Isaiah 29:8 ); in some instances the meaning is comparative only; בּקק , bāḳaḳ , "to gush out," "to pour out," "to empty" is used adjectivally ( Hosea 10:1 , "Israel is an empty vine"; but the Revised Version (British and American) takes the Hebrew word in its original sense of "pouring out," rendering "Israel is a luxuriant vine"); tōhū , "emptiness" ( Job 26:7 ); kenos , "empty" is so translated ( Mark 12:3 ); in Matthew 12:44 , the Greek word is scholázō , "to be free," "unoccupied"; "to empty" (verb) is the translation of bāḳaḳ ( Nahum 2:2 ), of dālal , "to become poor," etc. ( Isaiah 19:6 , the English Revised Version "minished," the American Standard Revised Version "diminished"). the Revised Version (British and American) has "empty" for "vain" ( Ephesians 5:6 ), "emptied himself" for "made himself of no reputation" ( Philippians 2:7 ), "emptied out" for "gathered" ( 2 Kings 22:9; 2 Chronicles 34:17 , margin "poured out").
