# H8414 תֹּהוּ

תֹּהוּ (tôhûw), Strong’s H8414: a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain KJV: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=21) — Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
- [Isaiah 24:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=10) — The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
- [Isaiah 29:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/34?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=17) — All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- [Isaiah 40:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=23) — who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
- [Isaiah 41:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/41?v=29) — Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
- [Isaiah 44:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=9) — Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t…