Tohu can refer to:
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Tohu Harris
Tohu Harris (born 7 January 1992) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and forward and captains the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL, and New Zealand and the New Zealand Māori at international level.
He prev ...
, New Zealand rugby league footballer
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Tohu Kākahi
Tohu Kākahi (c. 1828 – 4 February 1907) was a Māori leader, a warrior leader in the anti government Hau Hau Movement 1864-66 and later a prophet at Parihaka, who along with Te Whiti o Rongomai organised passive resistance against the occupa ...
, New Zealand Māori leader
*Tohu, a biblical person (an ancestor of the prophet
Samuel
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...
; 1 Samuel 1:1)
*Another transliteration of the Japanese word "
tofu
Tofu (), also known as bean curd in English, is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness; it can be ''silken'', ''soft'', ''firm'', ''extra firm'' or ''super firm ...
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In Hebrew
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Tohu wa-bohu
''Tohu wa-bohu'' or ''Tohu va-Vohu'' ( ) is a Biblical Hebrew phrase found in the Genesis creation narrative ( Genesis 1:2) that describes the condition of the earth ()
immediately before the creation of light in Genesis 1:3.
Numerous interp ...
, the Hebrew phrase from the Book of Genesis, usually translated "formless and empty"
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Tohu and Tikun
''Olam HaTohu'' ( he, עוֹלָם הַתֹּ֫הוּ "The World of ''Tohu''-Chaos/Confusion") and ''Olam HaTikun'' ( "The World of ''Tikun''-Order/Rectification") are two general stages in Jewish Kabbalah, in the order of descending spiritual ...
, the two stages of Existence in Lurianic Kabbalah; the initial Olam-World of ''Tohu''-Chaos collapses, to be replaced by the World of ''Tikun'' ("rectification")
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