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Lexicon :: Strong's H8414 - tôû

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תֹּהוּ
Transliteration
tôû
Pronunciation
to'-hoo
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to lie waste
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TWOT Reference: 2494a

Strong’s Definitions

תֹּהוּ tôhûw, to'-hoo; from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:—confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H8414 in the following manner: vain (4x), vanity (4x), confusion (3x), without form (2x), wilderness (2x), nought (2x), nothing (1x), empty place (1x), waste (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H8414 in the following manner: vain (4x), vanity (4x), confusion (3x), without form (2x), wilderness (2x), nought (2x), nothing (1x), empty place (1x), waste (1x).

  1. formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness

    1. formlessness (of primeval earth)

      1. nothingness, empty space

    2. that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)

    3. wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)

    4. place of chaos

    5. vanity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תֹּהוּ tôhûw, to'-hoo; from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:—confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
STRONGS H8414: Abbreviations
† תֹּ֫הוּ noun masculine1 Samuel 12:21 (AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 112) formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness (primary meaning difficult to seize; Vrss usually Κενόν, οὐδέν, μάταιον, inane, vacuum, vanum; compare LagOr. ii. 60; BN 144); —
1. formlessness, of primaeval earth Genesis 1:2 (P), of land reduced to primaeval chaos Jeremiah 4:23 (both + וָבֹהוּ and voidness), Isaiah 34:11 קַו־ת־׳ (|| אַבְנֵי בֹהוּ), Isaiah 45:18 בְרָאָהּ לֹא ת׳ (|| לָשֶׁבֶת יְצָרָתּ); Isaiah 24:10 קִרְיַתאתּ׳ city of chaos (of ruined city); = nothingness, empty space, Job 26:7 תֹּלֶה אֶרֶץ עַלתּֿ׳; of empty, trackless waste Deuteronomy 32:10 (|| מִדְבָּר), Job 6:18; Job 12:24 = Psalm 107:40.
2. figurative of what is empty, unreal, as idols 1 Samuel 12:21 (collective: אֲשֶׁר אַחֲרֵי הַתּ׳ לֹא יוֺעִילוּ), 1 Samuel 12:21; Isaiah 41:29 נִסְכֵּיהֶם רוּחַ וָת׳, Isaiah 44:9 (of idol-makers), groundless arguments or considerations, Isaiah 29:21 צַדִּיק וַיַּטּוּ בַתּ׳, Isaiah 59:4 moral unreality or falsehood בָּטוֺחַ עַלאתּ׳ (|| וְדַבֶּרשָֿׁוְא); = a thing of nought (compare Ecclus 41:10 מתהו אל תהו), Isaiah 40:17 (|| אַיִן אֶפֶס), Isaiah 40:23 עָשָׂה שֹׁפְטֵי אֶרֶץ כַּתּ׳ (|| לְאַיִן), worthlessness Isaiah 49:19 וְהֶבֶל כֹּחִי כִלֵּיתִי לְת׳ (|| לְרִיק יָגַעְתִּי); as adverb accusative Isaiah 45:19 I said not, תֹּהוּ בַקְּשׁוּנִי seek me emptily, to no purpose. compare Isaiah 29:13 Greek Version of the LXX וְתֹהוּ for וַתְּהִי.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:2

Deuteronomy

32:10

1 Samuel

12:21; 12:21; 12:21

Job

6:18; 12:24; 26:7

Psalms

107:40

Isaiah

24:10; 29:13; 29:21; 34:11; 40:17; 40:23; 41:29; 44:9; 45:18; 45:19; 49:19; 59:4

Jeremiah

4:23

H8414

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8414 matches the Hebrew תֹּהוּ (tôû),
which occurs 20 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[fn] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - “He found him in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - “And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18 - The paths of their way turn aside,
They go nowhere and perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - He takes away the understanding[fn] of the chiefs of the people of the earth,
And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40 - He pours contempt on princes,
And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The city of confusion is broken down;
Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - Who make a man an offender by a word,
And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
And turn aside the just by empty words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 - But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All nations before Him are as nothing,
And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 - He brings the princes to nothing;
He makes the judges of the earth useless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:29 - Indeed they are all worthless;[fn]
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - For thus says the LORD,
Who created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it in vain,
Who formed it to be inhabited:
“I am the LORD, and there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - I have not spoken in secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘Seek Me in vain’;
I, the LORD, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 - Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD,
And my work with my God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - No one calls for justice,
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in empty words and speak lies;
They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23 - I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void;
And the heavens, they had no light.
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