Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Dear Jim:

The problem I have with this is that the idols were anything but vapid and 
formless. They were solid and had form. But they were lifeless and unable to 
help those who worshipped them. Further Isaiah 45:18 mentions that the earth 
was made to be settled, not uninhabited.

Karl.


You wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 5/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Dear All:
> >
> >In Genesis 1:2 there is the phrase thw wbhw (tohu ubohu), what does it 
> >mean?
> 
> I think its something like vapid and formless.  I.e., before the creative
> acts which follow, there was vapidity and formlessness, to which form and
> meaning was given.
> 
> Jim
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Jim West
> 
> Biblical Studies Resources
> http://web.infoave.net/~jwest
> 
> Quantum ad sensum tribuis, tantum spiritui detraxeris-  Zwingli.
> 

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