# תֹּהוּ (tohv)

Israeli respelling: tohv. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8414. 19 Old Testament occurrences.

a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain

King James renderings: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tohv-h8414

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/2) — And 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 wate…
- [Deuteronomy 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/10) — He 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 ey…
- [1 Samuel 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/21) — And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
- [Job 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/18) — The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
- [Job 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/24) — He 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.
- [Job 26:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/7) — He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
- [Psalms 107:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/40) — He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- [Isaiah 24:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/10) — The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
- [Isaiah 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/21) — That 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.
- [Isaiah 34:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/17) — All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
- [Isaiah 40:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/23) — That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
- [Isaiah 41:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/29) — Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- [Isaiah 44:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/9) — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they…
- [Isaiah 45:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/18) — For 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…
- [Isaiah 45:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/19) — I 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 righteou…
- [Isaiah 49:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/4) — Then 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 wor…
- [Isaiah 59:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/4) — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquit…
- [Jeremiah 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/23) — I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.