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   * These passages use תֹּהוּ to describe moral or cosmic chaos, often as judgment imagery where the world returns to a pre-creation-like void.
+===== Theological Significance =====
+Creation Theology: Genesis 1:2 emphasizes that God brings order out of chaos, transforming chaos into a structured, life-filled cosmos.
+Prophetic Imagery: Prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah use the term to describe spiritual or societal collapse, suggesting a return to chaos when God's order is rejected.
+Purpose versus Futility: The word becomes a symbol for life without God's purpose—empty, futile, and directionless.
+===== Common grammatical forms =====
+| Grammatical Category | English Meaning | Hebrew Form |
+| Singular (absolute) | formlessness, emptiness, chaos  | תֹּהוּ |
+| Singular (construct) | formlessness of…, emptiness of… | תֹּהוּ — unchanged (rare, used as a fixed form) |
+| Plural (absolute) | desolations, wastes (rare poetic form) | תֹּהִים or תֹּהוּיִם |
+| Plural (construct) | desolations of… (poetic or hypothetical) | תֹּהֵי |
+| With definite article (singular) | the formlessness, the emptiness | הַתֹּהוּ |
+| With preposition בְּ ("in") | in formlessness / in emptiness | בַּתֹּהוּ or בְּתֹּהוּ |
+| With preposition לְ ("to/for") | to emptiness / for nothingness | לַתֹּהוּ or לְתֹּהוּ |
+| With preposition מִן ("from") | from emptiness / out of formlessness | מִתֹּהוּ |