- Original: בּהוּ - Transliteration: Bohuw - Phonetic: bo'-hoo - Definition: 1. emptiness, void, waste - Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be empty) - TWOT entry: 205a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity that is (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness void. Total KJV Occurrences: 3 • emptiness, 1 Isaiah 34:11 • void, 2 Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23