Hebrew word · H8459

תֹּחוּ

tochu

Tohu

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.1.1;

son of: Zuph (H6689);

father of: Elihu (H0453); also called Nahath at 1Ch.6.26; Toah at 1Ch.6.34;

§ Tohu = "lowly"

Levite, son of Zuph, father of Elihu, and great grandfather of Samuel

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Samuel · 1

  1. 1 Samuel 1:1 תֹּ֥חוּ Tohu

    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

    Here: Great-grandfather. The meaning of the name is uncertain. Chronicles spells it Toah or Nahath.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.