Mataiotēs ματαιότης

Mataiotēs (Greek ματαιότης, Strong's G3153) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “futility”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Mataiotēs, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Romans

• Romans 8:20
  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

Ephesians

• Ephesians 4:17
  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

2 Peter

• 2 Peter 2:18
  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).