H922 — בֹּהוּ (bohu)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H922
Original: בֹּהוּ
Transliteration: bôhûw
Pronunciation: bo
Part of Speech: masculine noun
Occurrences: 3 unique verses / 3 tokens in 3 OT books
First Occurrence: Gen 1:2 — "without form, and void"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

-hoo; from an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin:—emptiness, void.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Verses	%
and void	2	66.7%
of emptiness	1	33.3%

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Genesis	1	0.1
Jeremiah	1	0.1
Isaiah	1	0.1

The word is rare and always appears in highly compressed ruin/emptiness contexts.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Voidness Paired with Tohu¶

Gen 1:2 — "the earth was without form, and void"
Jer 4:23 — "the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void"

2. Measured Emptiness in Desolation¶

Isa 34:11 — "the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness"

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
תֹּהוּ (tohu)	H8414	3x	fixed pair: formless/void or confusion/emptiness
אֶרֶץ (erets)	H776	2x	earth/land as the subject of voidness
חֹשֶׁךְ (choshek)	H2822	1x	darkness in Gen 1:2 creation setting
תְּהוֹם (tehom)	H8415	1x	deep in Gen 1:2
רוּחַ (ruach)	H7307	1x	Spirit/wind in Gen 1:2
קַו (qav)	H6957	1x	measuring line in Isa 34:11
אֶבֶן (eben)	H68	1x	measuring stones in Isa 34:11

Synonyms and Semantic Neighbors¶

H8414 תֹּהוּ (tohu) — formlessness, waste, confusion, futility; sole curated synonym returned by the relationship tool.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
מְבוּקָה (mebuqah)	H4003	void	mebuqah is another emptiness term; bohu is the rare tohu partner in Gen 1:2 / Jer 4:23
תֹּהוּ (tohu)	H8414	void/emptiness field	tohu has a broader range: waste, vanity, nothingness; bohu is narrower vacuity/voidness

Semantic Domain¶

[002002002006] Non-Exist — nonexistence / empty condition.

LXX Mapping¶

The gatherer returned no ranked LXX mapping table for H922. Its reusable significance is therefore documented through its Hebrew collocation with H8414 and its three KJV contexts.