תֹּ֫הוּ (to.hu) means “formlessness” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: to'-hoo Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
תֹּ֫הוּ · to.hu · formlessness
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
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from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV glosses: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of chaos | 2 |
| wasteland | 2 |
| and emptiness | 1 |
| and it was formless | 1 |
| and who with false charges | 1 |
| are as empty | 1 |
| are nothing | 1 |
| empty | 1 |
| empty pleas | 1 |
| empty space | 1 |
| formless | 1 |
| in a barren | 1 |
| in a wasteland | 1 |
| in futility | 1 |
| into the wasteland | 1 |
| it to be empty | 1 |
| meaningless | 1 |
| worthless | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of confusion | 2 |
| vain | 2 |
| without form | 2 |
| all of them vanity | 1 |
| and confusion | 1 |
| and in the waste | 1 |
| and vanity | 1 |
| as vanity | 1 |
| for a thing of nought | 1 |
| for nought | 1 |
| in a wilderness | 1 |
| in the wilderness | 1 |
| in vanity | 1 |
| it not in vain | 1 |
| over the empty place | 1 |
| to nothing | 1 |
| ye me in vain | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 19 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
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.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordDo not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
Read word by wordCaravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
Read word by wordHe deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Read word by wordHe stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Read word by wordHe pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Read word by wordThe city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
Read word by wordthose who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
Read word by wordThe desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Read word by wordAll the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
Read word by wordHe brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
Read word by wordSee, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
Read word by wordAll makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
Read word by wordFor thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Read word by wordI have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
Read word by wordBut I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
Read word by wordNo one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Read word by wordI looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
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