Strong's Hebrew · H8414
H8414 tôhûw
תֹּהוּ
to'-hoo
formlessness
tôhûw appears 20 times in Scripture, including Genesis 1:2 and Deuteronomy 32:10. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
In the King James Version
confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
