Chaos is used in the book of Genesis chapter 1 as something God created. Here the word without form chaos is found. What is the purpose of chaos? What did God create chaos?

1. Lexicon :: Strong's H8414 - tohuw
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‫תּ‬ֹ‫ה‬‫וּ‬
Pronunciation
tō'·hü (Key)
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to lie waste
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: 2494a
KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
Outline of Biblical Usage [?]
1. formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
1. formlessness (of primeval earth)
1. nothingness, empty space
2. that which is empty or unreal (of idols) (fig)
3. wasteland, wilderness (of solitary places)
4. place of chaos
5. vanity
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
‫תּ‬ֹ‫ה‬‫וּ‬ tôhûw, to'-hoo; from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a
worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:—confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain,
vanity, waste, wilderness.
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Concordance Results Using KJV
Strong's Number H8414 matches the Hebrew ‫תּ‬ֹ‫ה‬‫וּ‬ (tohuw),
which occurs 20 times in 19 verses in the Hebrew concordance of the KJV
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Gen
1:2
And the earth was without form, H8414 and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Deu
32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste H8414 howling wilderness; he led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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3. 1Sa
12:21
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain H8414 things, which cannot profit nor
deliver; for they are vain. H8414
Job
6:18
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, H8414 and perish.
Job
12:24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a
wilderness H8414 where there is no way.
Job
26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, H8414 and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Psa
107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, H8414 where
there is no way.
Isa
24:10
The city of confusion H8414 is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isa
29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and
turn aside the just for a thing of nought. H8414
Isa
34:11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and
he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, H8414 and the stones of emptiness.
Isa
40:17
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and
vanity. H8414
Isa
40:23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. H8414
Isa
41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and
confusion. H8414
Isa
44:9
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; H8414 and their delectable things shall not
profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isa
45:18
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made
it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, H8414 he formed it to be inhabited: I am the
LORD; and there is none else.
Isa
45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek
ye me in vain: H8414 I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isa
49:4
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, H8414 and in vain: yet
surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isa
59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, H8414 and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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4. Jer
4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, H8414 and void; and the heavens, and they had
no light.
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