{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H8414",
  "lemma": "תֹּהוּ",
  "transliteration": "tôhûw",
  "definition": "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…",
  "occurrences": 20,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "תֹּ֫הוּ n.m. formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness (primary meaning difficult to seize)",
    "1. formlessness",
    "2. fig. of what is empty, unreal"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:2",
      "text": "The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:10",
      "text": "He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 12:21",
      "text": "Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 24:10",
      "text": "The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 29:21",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 34:11",
      "text": "But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/34?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 40:17",
      "text": "All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 40:23",
      "text": "who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 41:29",
      "text": "Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/41?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 44:9",
      "text": "Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=9"
    }
  ],
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