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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 BoxGen 1:2 - And the earth was [fn]formless H8414 and void, and darkness was over the [fn]surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the [fn]surface of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 -

“He found him in a desert land,

And in the howling waste H8414 of a wilderness;

He encircled him; He cared for him;

He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - “And you must not turn aside, for then you would go after meaningless H8414 things H8414 which cannot profit and cannot deliver, because they are meaningless H8414.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18 -

“The [fn]paths of their course wind along;

They go up into a formless H8414 place and perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 -

“He removes the heart of wisdom from the heads of the earth’s people

And makes them wander in a pathless [fn]waste H8414.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 -

“He stretches out the north over what is formless H8414

And hangs the earth on nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40 -

He pours contempt upon nobles

And makes them wander in a pathless void H8414.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 -

The city of chaos H8414 is broken down;

Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 -

Who [fn]cause a person to sin by a word,

And ensnare him who reproves at the gate,

And [fn]defraud the one in the right with [fn]meaningless H8414 arguments H8414.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 -

But [fn]pelican and hedgehog will possess it,

And [fn]owl and raven will dwell in it;

And He will stretch over it the line of utter formlessness H8414

And the [fn]plumb line of utter void.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 -

All the nations are as nothing before Him;

They are counted by Him as non-existent and utterly formless H8414.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 -

It is He who reduces rulers to nothing,

Who makes the [fn]judges of the earth utterly formless H8414.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:29 -

“Behold, all of them are [fn]false;

Their works are non-existent;

Their molten images are wind and utter formlessness H8414.

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Those who form [fn]a graven image are all of them [fn]futile H8414, and their desirable things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

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For thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it [fn]a formless H8414 place H8414, but formed it to be inhabited),

“I am Yahweh, and there is none else.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 -

“I have not spoken in secret,

In [fn]some dark land;

I did not say to the seed of Jacob,

‘Seek Me in [fn]a formless H8414 place H8414’;

I, Yahweh, speak righteousness,

Declaring things that are upright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 -

But I said, “I have toiled in vain;

I have spent My might for [fn]nothing H8414 and vanity;

Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,

And My reward with My God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 -

No one calls in righteousness, and no one seeks justice in truth.

They trust in [fn]confusion H8414 and speak worthlessness;

They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:23

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I saw on the earth, and behold, it was [fn]formless H8414 and void;

And to the heavens, and they had no light.

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