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
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H8414 — תֹּ֫הוּ
to.hu · formlessness · Hebrew/Aramaic
19 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 1:2 · תֹ֙הוּ֙And 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 32:10 · וּבְתֹ֖הוּHe 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 12:21 · הַתֹּ֗הוּ · תֹ֥הוּAnd turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.Job 6:18 · בַתֹּ֣הוּThe paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.Job 12:24 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe 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 26:7 · תֹּ֑הוּHe stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.Psalm 107:40 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.Isaiah 24:10 · תֹּ֑הוּThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.Isaiah 29:21 · בַתֹּ֖הוּThat 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 34:11 · תֹ֖הוּBut 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.Isaiah 40:17 · וָתֹ֖הוּAll nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.Isaiah 40:23 · כַּתֹּ֥הוּThat bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.Isaiah 41:29 · וָתֹ֖הוּBehold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.Isaiah 44:9 · תֹּ֔הוּThey that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.Isaiah 45:18 · תֹ֥הוּFor thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.Isaiah 45:19 · תֹּ֣הוּI have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.Isaiah 49:4 · לְתֹ֥הוּThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with my God.Isaiah 59:4 · תֹּ֙הוּ֙None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Jeremiah 4:23 · תֹ֖הוּI beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.