H8414. tohu
תֹּ֫הוּ noun masculine[1Sam 12:21] (AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 112) formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness (primary meaning difficult to seize; Vrss usually Κενόν, οὐδέν, μάταιον, inane, vacuum, vanum; compare LagOr. ii. 60; BN 144); —
1 formlessness, of primaeval earth [Gen 1:2] (P), of land reduced to primaeval chaos [Jer 4:23] (both + וָבֹהוּ and voidness), [Isa 34:11] ׳קַותֿֿ (|| בֹהוּ אַבְנֵי), [45:18] ת ׳לֹא בְרָאָהּ (|| יְצָרָתּ לָשֶׁבֶת); [24:10] ׳קִרְיַתאתּ city of chaos (of ruined city); = nothingness, empty space, [Job 26:7] ׳עַלתּֿ אֶרֶץ תֹּלֶה; of empty, trackless waste [Deut 32:10] (|| מִדְבָּר), [Job 6:18]; [12:24] = [Psa 107:40].
2 figurative of what is empty, unreal, as idols [1Sam 12:21] (collective: יוֺעִילוּ לֹא הַתּ ׳אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר), [12:21]; [Isa 41:29] וָת ׳רוּחַ נִסְכֵּיהֶם, [44:9] (of idol-makers), groundless arguments or considerations, [29:21] בַתּ ׳וַיַּטּוּ צַדִּיק, [59:4] moral unreality or falsehood עַלאתּ ׳בָּטוֺחַ (|| וְדַבֶּרשָֿׁוְא); = a thing of nought (compare Ecclus 41:10 תהו אל מתהו), [40:17] (|| אֶפֶס אַיִן), [40:23] כַּתּ אֶרֶץ ׳שֹׁפְטֵי עָשָׂה (|| לְאַיִן), worthlessness [49:19] ׳לְת כִלֵּיתִי כֹּחִי וְהֶבֶל (|| יָגַעְתִּי לְרִיק); as adverb accusative [45:19] I said not, בַקְּשׁוּנִי תֹּהוּ seek me emptily, to no purpose. compare [29:13] וְתֹהוּ ᵐ5 for וַתְּהִי.