First occurrence
Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. Gen 1:2
The primitive root
Strong’s H8414 תהו tohu, from an unused primitive root meaning, “to lie waste.” The ancient pictographs are tav + hey + vav.
tav ת = crossed sticks, thus mark, sign, signal, monument
hey ה = man with upraised arms, thus look, reveal, wonder, worship, breath
vav ו = the tent peg, thus add, secure, hook
The story being told is of marked (tav) astonishment (hey) connected (vav) with a thing. To look at something without form and desolate is to feel marked astonishment in connection with it.
Thank you for posting this information, I was doing word study on the two words in Genesis 1:2 “Form” and “Void” and I stumble on your site doing a google search. I could hardly make out the hebrew pictograph symbols in the storng’s concordance, I kinda figured it was a tav hey vav, but wasn’t absolutely sure. I wanted to see what the Hebrew Pictographs would tell me. I have a book called “Hebrew Word Pictures” by a Dr. Frank T. Seekins that I used to dig deeper into the meaning of words. Love your last words. “To look at something without form and desolate is to feel marked astonishment in connection with it” exactly what I am feeling at the moment! Thank you again Christine, I am going to browse your web site.
You are very welcome Glen, thank you for visiting and for leaving your kind words. Shalom in Messiah Yeshua –