Void
בֹּהוּStrong’s H0922bohu (bo-hu)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bohu is the Hebrew word usually translated “emptiness”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Emptiness, void, waste
How it's translated
- and emptiness 2
- emptiness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 34:11But 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.
- Jeremiah 4:23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Hebrew dictionary
בֹּהוּ bohu · void
emptiness, void, waste
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “void” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VOID, adjective
[Latin viduus, divido. Gr.]
- Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place. 1 Kings 22:10
- Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Genesis 1:2
- Having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect.“My word shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish that which I please” Isaiah 55:11“I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place” Jeremiah 19:7
- Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense. Acts 24:16
All definitions and other forms of “void”
- Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense.“He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor” Proverbs 11:12
- Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent.
- Unsubstantial; vain.
- To make void; to violate; to transgress.“They have made void thy law” Psalms 119:126
- To render useless or of no effect. Romans 4:14
VOID, noun
An empty space; a vacuum.
VOID, verb transitive
- To quit; to leave.
- To emit; to send out; to evacuate; as, to void excrementitious matter; to void worms.
- To vacate; to annul; to nullify; to render of no validity or effect.
- To make or leave vacant.
VOID, verb intransitive
To be emitted or evacuated.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.