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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