H8414 · תֹּהוּ
tôhûw · to'-hoo · vain, vanity, waste, nothing
H8414 (tôhûw, pronounced to'-hoo) is the Hebrew word תֹּהוּ in Strong’s dictionary: a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert. It appears 20 times in 19 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- תֹּהוּ (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- tôhûw
- Pronunciation
- to'-hoo
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to lie waste;
- Definition
- a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
- Rendered in the KJV
- confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
20 occurrences in 19 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “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
By book
Genesis 1 · Deuteronomy 1 · 1 Samuel 1 · Job 3 · Psalms 1 · Isaiah 11 · Jeremiah 1