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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.
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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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - And turn not aside after the gods that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18 - Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way they have not known, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40 - (LXX 106:40) Contempt is poured upon their princes, and he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 - and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and [fn]satyrs shall dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 - he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:29 - For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - Thus saith the Lord that made the heaven, this God that [fn]created the earth, and made it; he marked it out, he made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none beside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity: [fn]I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labour before my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23 - I looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was not; and to the sky, and there was no light in it.
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