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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 hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18 - Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40 - He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 - And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 - He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:29 - 'Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it -- not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: 'I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:4 - And I said, 'For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23 - I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
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