Strong's Hebrew · H8414
תֹּהוּ
tôhûw · to'-hoo
confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Definition
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Derivation
from an unused root meaning to lie waste;
Appears 20 times in Scripture
“He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.”
“those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.”
“Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.”
“He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.”
“The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.”
“He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.”
“Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”
“He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.”
“Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).