H8414 תֹּהוּ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 20 KJV occurrences
תֹּהוּ
tôhûw · to'-hoo
Definition
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV Renderings
confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to lie waste;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 20)
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Isaiah 34:11¶ But 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 40:23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
- 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 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.