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Classical Syriac
Etymology
From Hebrew תֹּהוּ וָבֹהוּ (tōhû wāḇōhû); see also English tohu-bohu.
Pronunciation
Noun
ܬܘܗ ܘܒܘܗ • (tōh wə-ḇōh) m(uncountable)
- used to describe the Earth in Genesis 1:2; tohu-bohu, chaos, formlessness and emptiness
References
- “twh**wbwh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-10-12
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 388b
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 606b
- Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 1627b