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 · תֹ֙הוּ֙the 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,Deuteronomy 32:10 · וּבְתֹ֖הוּHe 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.1 Samuel 12:21 · הַתֹּ֗הוּ · תֹ֥הוּand ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,Job 6:18 · בַתֹּ֣הוּTurn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.Job 12:24 · בְּתֹ֣הוּTurning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy—no way!Job 26:7 · תֹּ֑הוּStretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,Psalm 107:40 · בְּתֹ֣הוּHe is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy—no way.Isaiah 24:10 · תֹּ֑הוּIt was broken down—a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.Isaiah 29:21 · בַתֹּ֖הוּCausing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.Isaiah 34:11 · תֹ֖הוּAnd 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.Isaiah 40:17 · וָתֹ֖הוּAll the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.Isaiah 40:23 · כַּתֹּ֥הוּHe who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;Isaiah 41:29 · וָתֹ֖הוּLo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!’Isaiah 44:9 · תֹּ֔הוּFramers 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.Isaiah 45:18 · תֹ֥הוּFor 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.Isaiah 45:19 · תֹּ֣הוּNot 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.Isaiah 49:4 · לְתֹ֥הוּAnd 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.Isaiah 59:4 · תֹּ֙הוּ֙There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.Jeremiah 4:23 · תֹ֖הוּI looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.