Strong H8414תֹּ֫הוּ
formlessness
- Transliteration
- tôhû
- Pronunciation
- to'-hoo
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of {surface}) that {is} desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - {confusion} empty {place} without {form} {nothing} (thing of) {nought} {vain} {vanity} {waste} wilderness.
Detailed definition
1) formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
1a) formlessness (of primeval earth)
1a1) nothingness, empty space
1b) that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)
1c) wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)
1d) place of chaos
1e) vanity
1a) formlessness (of primeval earth)
1a1) nothingness, empty space
1b) that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)
1c) wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)
1d) place of chaos
1e) vanity
In the Bible
Strong H8414 appears in 19 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- vanity4
- confusion3
- vain3
- form2
- nought2
- wilderness2
- nothing1
- place1
- waste1
First verses
- Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- 1 Samuel 12:21And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
- Job 6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
- Job 12:24He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Job 26:7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
- Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Isaiah 24:10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
- Isaiah 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
- Isaiah 34:11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
- Isaiah 40:17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
- Isaiah 40:23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
- Isaiah 41:29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Isaiah 44:9They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
- Isaiah 45:18For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
- Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Isaiah 49:4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
- Isaiah 59:4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Jeremiah 4:23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.