H8414 tohuw

Meaning and word study

Transliteration

to'-hoo

Definition

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.

KJV phrases tagged with this entry

vain (2), of confusion (2), without form, (1), and in the waste (1), to nothing (1), in a wilderness (1), over the empty place (1), in the wilderness (1), for a thing of nought (1), and vanity (1), as vanity (1), and confusion (1), all of them vanity (1), it not in vain (1), ye me in vain (1), for nought (1)

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Source: Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary, CrossWire distribution. License: Public domain. KJV word-tag alignment supplied by the CrossWire KJV module.