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 waste 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 compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.1 Samuel 12:21 · הַתֹּ֗הוּ · תֹ֥הוּand turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.Job 6:18 · בַתֹּ֣הוּThe caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.Job 12:24 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe taketh away understanding from the chiefs 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 empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.Psalm 107:40 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.Isaiah 24:10 · תֹּ֑הוּThe waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.Isaiah 29:21 · בַתֹּ֖הוּthat make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.Isaiah 34:11 · תֹ֖הוּBut the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.Isaiah 40:17 · וָתֹ֖הוּAll the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.Isaiah 40:23 · כַּתֹּ֥הוּthat bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.Isaiah 41:29 · וָתֹ֖הוּBehold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.Isaiah 44:9 · תֹּ֔הוּThey that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.Isaiah 45:18 · תֹ֥הוּFor thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.Isaiah 45:19 · תֹּ֣הוּI have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.Isaiah 49:4 · לְתֹ֥הוּBut I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.Isaiah 59:4 · תֹּ֙הוּ֙None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in 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 waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.