Tidal
From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. Desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain -- confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
תֹּ֫הוּ noun masculine1Samuel 12:21 (Albr
ZAW xvi (1896), 112)
formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness (primary meaning difficult to seize; Vrss usually
Κενόν,
οὐδέν,
μάταιον,
inane, vacuum, vanum; compare Lag
Or. ii. 60; BN 144); —
1 formlessness, of primaeval earth Genesis 1:2 (P), of land reduced to primaeval chaos Jeremiah 4:23 (both + וָבֹהוּ and voidness), Isaiah 34:11 ׳קַותֿֿ ("" אַבְנֵי בֹהוּ), Isaiah 45:18 בְרָאָהּ ׳לֹא ת ("" לָשֶׁבֶת יְצָרָתּ); Isaiah 24:10 ׳קִרְיַתאתּ city of chaos (of ruined city); = nothingness, empty space, Job 26:7 תֹּלֶה אֶרֶץ ׳עַלתּֿ; of empty, trackless waste Deuteronomy 32:10 ("" מִדְבָּר), Job 6:18; Job 12:24 = Psalm 107:40.
2 figurative of what is empty, unreal, as idols 1 Samuel 12:21 (collective: אֲשֶׁר ׳אַחֲרֵי הַתּ לֹא יוֺעִילוּ), 1 Samuel 12:21; Isaiah 41:29 נִסְכֵּיהֶם ׳רוּחַ וָת, Isaiah 44:9 (of idol-makers), groundless arguments or considerations, Isaiah 29:21 צַדִּיק ׳וַיַּטּוּ בַתּ, Isaiah 59:4 moral unreality or falsehood ׳בָּטוֺחַ עַלאתּ ("" וְדַבֶּרשָֿׁוְא); = a thing of nought (compare Ecclus 41:10 מתהו אל תהו), Isaiah 40:17 ("" אַיִן אֶפֶס), Isaiah 40:23 עָשָׂה ׳שֹׁפְטֵי אֶרֶץ כַּתּ ("" לְאַיִן), worthlessness Isaiah 49:19 וְהֶבֶל כֹּחִי כִלֵּיתִי ׳לְת ("" לְרִיק יָגַעְתִּי); as adverb accusative Isaiah 45:19 I said not, תֹּהוּ בַקְּשׁוּנִי seek me emptily, to no purpose. compare Isaiah 29:13 ᵐ5 וְתֹהוּ for וַתְּהִי.
Strong's Hebrew: 8414. תֹּ֫הוּ (tohu) — 20 Occurrences
Genesis 1:2
HEB: וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ
NAS: The earth was formless and void,
KJV: was without form, and void;
INT: the earth was was formless and void and darkness
Deuteronomy 32:10
HEB: בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִדְבָּ֔ר וּבְתֹ֖הוּ יְלֵ֣ל יְשִׁמֹ֑ן
NAS: And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
KJV: land, and in the waste howling
INT: land A desert waste the howling of a wilderness
1 Samuel 12:21
HEB: כִּ֣י ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַתֹּ֗הוּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־
NAS: for [then you would go] after futile things
KJV: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit
INT: because after futile which not
1 Samuel 12:21
HEB: יַצִּ֖ילוּ כִּי־ תֹ֥הוּ הֵֽמָּה׃
NAS: futile things which
KJV: nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
INT: deliver because things like
Job 6:18
HEB: דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַתֹּ֣הוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃
NAS: They go up into nothing and perish.
KJV: they go to nothing, and perish.
INT: of their course go nothing and perish
Job 12:24
HEB: הָאָ֑רֶץ וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם בְּתֹ֣הוּ לֹא־ דָֽרֶךְ׃
NAS: in a pathless waste.
KJV: and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no way.
INT: of the earth's wander waste no way
Job 26:7
HEB: צָפ֣וֹן עַל־ תֹּ֑הוּ תֹּ֥לֶה אֶ֝֗רֶץ
NAS: over empty space And hangs
KJV: the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth
INT: the north over empty and hangs the earth
Psalm 107:40
HEB: נְדִיבִ֑ים וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם בְּתֹ֣הוּ לֹא־ דָֽרֶךְ׃
NAS: in a pathless waste.
KJV: and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.
INT: princes wander waste no way
Isaiah 24:10
HEB: נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה קִרְיַת־ תֹּ֑הוּ סֻגַּ֥ר כָּל־
NAS: The city of chaos is broken down;
KJV: The city of confusion is broken down:
INT: is broken the city of chaos is shut Every
Isaiah 29:21
HEB: יְקֹשׁ֑וּן וַיַּטּ֥וּ בַתֹּ֖הוּ צַדִּֽיק׃ ס
NAS: the one in the right with meaningless arguments.
KJV: the just for a thing of nought.
INT: and ensnare and defraud meaningless the one
Isaiah 34:11
HEB: עָלֶ֛יהָ קַֽו־ תֹ֖הוּ וְאַבְנֵי־ בֹֽהוּ׃
NAS: it the line of desolation And the plumb line
KJV: upon it the line of confusion, and the stones
INT: over the line of desolation and the plumb of emptiness
Isaiah 40:17
HEB: נֶגְדּ֑וֹ מֵאֶ֥פֶס וָתֹ֖הוּ נֶחְשְׁבוּ־ לֽוֹ׃
NAS: than nothing and meaningless.
KJV: to him less than nothing, and vanity.
INT: before less and meaningless are regarded
Isaiah 40:23
HEB: שֹׁ֥פְטֵי אֶ֖רֶץ כַּתֹּ֥הוּ עָשָֽׂה׃
NAS: the judges of the earth meaningless.
KJV: the judges of the earth as vanity.
INT: the judges of the earth meaningless makes
Isaiah 41:29
HEB: מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם ר֥וּחַ וָתֹ֖הוּ נִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ פ
NAS: are wind and emptiness.
KJV: [are] wind and confusion.
INT: their works are wind and emptiness their molten
Isaiah 44:9
HEB: פֶ֤סֶל כֻּלָּם֙ תֹּ֔הוּ וַחֲמוּדֵיהֶ֖ם בַּל־
NAS: are all of them futile, and their precious things
KJV: a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things
INT: A graven are all futile and their precious no
Isaiah 45:18
HEB: כֽוֹנְנָ֔הּ לֹא־ תֹ֥הוּ בְרָאָ֖הּ לָשֶׁ֣בֶת
NAS: it [and] did not create it a waste place, [but] formed
KJV: it, he created it not in vain, he formed
INT: established not a waste create to be inhabited
Isaiah 45:19
HEB: לְזֶ֥רַע יַעֲקֹ֖ב תֹּ֣הוּ בַקְּשׁ֑וּנִי אֲנִ֤י
NAS: Seek Me in a waste place; I, the LORD,
KJV: Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD
INT: to the offspring of Jacob a waste Seek I
Isaiah 49:4
HEB: לְרִ֣יק יָגַ֔עְתִּי לְתֹ֥הוּ וְהֶ֖בֶל כֹּחִ֣י
NAS: My strength for nothing and vanity;
KJV: my strength for nought, and in vain:
INT: vain have toiled nothing and vanity my strength
Isaiah 59:4
HEB: בָּט֤וֹחַ עַל־ תֹּ֙הוּ֙ וְדַבֶּר־ שָׁ֔וְא
NAS: They trust in confusion and speak
KJV: they trust in vanity, and speak
INT: trust in confusion and speak lies
Jeremiah 4:23
HEB: הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהִנֵּה־ תֹ֖הוּ וָבֹ֑הוּ וְאֶל־
NAS: and behold, [it was] formless and void;
KJV: the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void;
INT: the earth and behold formless and void and to