Strong's Hebrew · H8414

תֹּהוּ

tôhûw · to'-hoo

Definitiona desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Derivationfrom an unused root meaning to lie waste;
KJV usageconfusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Occurrences20 in the KJV · 19 verses

תֹּהוּ in Scripture

Genesis 1:2 And 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 He 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 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things , which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. Job 6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. Job 12:24 He 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 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. Psalms 107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. Isaiah 24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. Isaiah 29:21 That 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 But 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 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
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