Strong's Concordance
Original word: תֹּ֫הוּ
Transliteration: tohu
Definition (short): waste
Definition (full): a desolation, desert, a worthless thing, in vain
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
NASB Translation: chaos (1), confusion (1), desolation (1), emptiness (1), empty space (1), formless (2), futile (2), futile things (1), meaningless (2), meaningless arguments (1), nothing (2), waste (3), waste place (2).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries.
Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation.
All rights reserved Lockman.org
Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation.
All rights reserved Lockman.org
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
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.
References
KJV:
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
NASB:
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
KJV:
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
NASB:
"He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.