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 · תֹ֙הוּ֙Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.Deuteronomy 32:10 · וּבְתֹ֖הוּHe found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.1 Samuel 12:21 · הַתֹּ֗הוּ · תֹ֥הוּDon’t turn aside to go after vain things which can’t profit nor deliver, for they are vain.Job 6:18 · בַתֹּ֣הוּThe caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.Job 12:24 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.Job 26:7 · תֹּ֑הוּHe stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.Psalm 107:40 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.Isaiah 24:10 · תֹּ֑הוּThe confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.Isaiah 29:21 · בַתֹּ֖הוּwho cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.Isaiah 34:11 · תֹ֖הוּBut the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.Isaiah 40:17 · וָתֹ֖הוּAll the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.Isaiah 40:23 · כַּתֹּ֥הוּwho brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.Isaiah 41:29 · וָתֹ֖הוּBehold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.Isaiah 44:9 · תֹּ֔הוּEveryone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.Isaiah 45:18 · תֹ֥הוּFor thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.Isaiah 45:19 · תֹּ֣הוּI have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, 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 nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”Isaiah 59:4 · תֹּ֙הוּ֙None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Jeremiah 4:23 · תֹ֖הוּI saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.