H8414 תֹּהוּ
tôhûw — a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste…
Occurs 20 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תֹּ֫הוּ n.m. formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness (primary meaning difficult to seize)
- 1 formlessness
- 2 fig. of what is empty, unreal
Where it occurs
- Genesis 1:2 — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- Deuteronomy 32:10 — He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the…
- 1 Samuel 12:21 — Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
- Isaiah 24:10 — The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
- Isaiah 29:21 — who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the…
- Isaiah 34:11 — But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of…
- Isaiah 40:17 — All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- Isaiah 40:23 — who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
- Isaiah 41:29 — Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Isaiah 44:9 — Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t…