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title: תֹּחוּ — Tohu · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֹּחוּ (8459), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Tohu. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֹּחוּ

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«תֹּחוּ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tohu** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 8459 · **BDB:** תּוֹחַ

### Glosses

of.Tohu (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֹּחוּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8459/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.1/)

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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.

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