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Strong’s H8414 · Hebrew

תֹּהוּ

tôhûw · to'-hoo

Origin from an unused root meaning to lie waste;

Meaning 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.

In 19 verses of the King James Version

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Job 6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
  5. 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.
  6. Job 26:7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
  7. Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
  8. Isaiah 24:10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Isaiah 40:17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
  12. Isaiah 40:23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
  13. Isaiah 41:29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Jeremiah 4:23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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