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# תֹּחוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8459

**Tohu** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Tohu [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8459/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹחַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8459/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. ancestor of Samuel 1 Ch 6:19 \[Levite !\]; Θειε, Θοουε, 𝔊L Νααθ; ‖ תֹּ֫חוּ 1 S 1:1; Θοκε, Θοου, 𝔊L Θωε.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Tohu (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.1/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֜ד מִן־הָרָמָתַ֛יִם צוֹפִ֖ים מֵהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם וּשְׁמ֡וֹ אֶ֠לְקָנָה בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֧ם בֶּן־אֱלִיה֛וּא בֶּן־תֹּ֥חוּ בֶן־צ֖וּף אֶפְרָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.was a.man one from (the) Ramathaim Zophim from the.hill.country of.Ephraim and name his \[was\].Elkanah the.son of.Jeroham the.son of.Elihu the.son of.Tohu the.son of.Zuph an.Ephrathite

*JPS 1917:* NOW THERE was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8459.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8459/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).