Bible Names

Tohu: meaning of the name

Tohu means “that lives; that declares.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Tohu in Hebrew and Greek

תֹּחוּ H8459

Tôchûw (to'-khoo) — Tochu, an Israelite

from an unused root meaning to depress; abasement;

Tohu in Scripture

“Tohu” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 1 Samuel 1:1

    Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: