H8414

תהו

תהו

thahaw

Masculine noun · From an unused root meaning to lie waste

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.

Outline

formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness

formlessness (of primeval earth)

nothingness, empty space

that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)
wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)
place of chaos
vanity

Usages

Genesis 1:2

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.

Breakdown

without form, and void The earth was there but the elements had not combined together. face of the deep Space. moved In a chariot. face of the waters e.g. 2 Peter 3:5.

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Deuteronomy 32:10

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.

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howling wilderness The wilderness Israel fled into after they left Egypt.

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1 Samuel 12:21

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

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Job 6:18

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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Job 12:24

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

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Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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Psalms 107:40

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

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Isaiah 24:10

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Breakdown

city of confusion Babylon, i.e. America. that no man may come in Quarantines.

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Isaiah 29:21

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

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Isaiah 34:11

¶ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Breakdown

line of confusion After America's destruction, it will not be able to possible to tell where one state ends and another begins.

Precepts

Revelation 18:2

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Isaiah 40:17

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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Isaiah 40:23

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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Isaiah 44:9

¶ They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

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Isaiah 45:18

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

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Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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Isaiah 49:4

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

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Isaiah 59:4

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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