תֹּ֫הוּ
to.hu (H8414)
formlessness
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "to.hu" (H8414) is defined as "formlessness." This concept suggests a lack of shape, structure, or organization. In the context of creation and nature, "to.hu" implies a state of chaos or disorder, where things are not yet defined or bounded. The word "to.hu" appears 20 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various aspects of creation and nature. Its usage range from describing the primordial state of the universe (Genesis 1:2) to the chaotic conditions of the sea (Psalm 89:9). This word highlights the idea that creation is not a static, finished product, but rather a dynamic process of formation and shaping. The concept of "to.hu" as formlessness underscores the idea that creation is not just a matter of bringing order out of chaos, but also of shaping and defining the boundaries of things. This word highlights the ongoing process of creation and the dynamic relationship between form and formlessness in the natural world.
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The 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.
He 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.
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
He 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.
He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
who 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.
But 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.
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
Everyone who makes a carved 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.
For 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. There is no other.
I 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.
But 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.”
No 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.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.