Limitless Word
תֹּהוּtôhûw/to'-hoo/
HebrewH841420 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

Where it appears(showing the first 19 of 20)

  • Gen 1:2The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
  • Deut 32:10He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
  • 1 Sam 12:21Don’t turn aside to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
  • Job 6:18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
  • Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
  • Ps 107:40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
  • Isa 24:10The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
  • Isa 29:21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
  • Isa 34:11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
  • Isa 40:17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
  • Isa 40:23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
  • Isa 41:29Behold, all of them, their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • Isa 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
  • Isa 45:18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
  • Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
  • Isa 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
  • Isa 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
  • Jer 4:23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.