- Original: תּהוּ - Transliteration: Tohuw - Phonetic: to'-hoo - Definition: 1. formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness a. formlessness (of primeval earth) 1. nothingness, empty space b. that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig) c. wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places) d. place of chaos e. vanity - Origin: from an unused root meaning to lie waste - TWOT entry: 2494a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface) that is desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion empty place without form nothing (thing of) nought vain vanity waste wilderness. Total KJV Occurrences: 20 • confusion, 3 Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 41:29 • form, 2 Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23 • naught, 2 Isaiah 29:21; Isaiah 49:4 • nothing, 1 Job 6:18 • place, 1 Job 26:7 • vain, 4 1 Samuel 12:21(2); Isaiah 45:18; Isaiah 45:19 • vanity, 4 Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 40:23; Isaiah 44:9; Isaiah 59:4 • waste, 1 Deuteronomy 32:10 • wilderness, 2 Job 12:24; Psalm 107:40