Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H8414
תֹּ֫הוּ
to.hu · “formlessness”
Used 20 times across 7 books
Definition
1) formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
1a) formlessness (of primeval earth)
1a1) nothingness, empty space
1b) that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)
1c) wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)
1d) place of chaos
1e) vanity
1a) formlessness (of primeval earth)
1a1) nothingness, empty space
1b) that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)
1c) wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)
1d) place of chaos
1e) vanity
Where it appears
Genesis1
Deuteronomy1
1 Samuel2
Job3
Psalms1
Isaiah11
Jeremiah1
In the text
Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.1 Samuel 12:21And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.Job 6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.Job 12:24He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.Job 26:7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.Isaiah 24:10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.Isaiah 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.Isaiah 34:11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
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