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Tohu

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Tohu can refer to:

  • Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league footballer
  • Tohu Kākahi, New Zealand Māori leader
  • Tohu, a biblical person (an ancestor of the prophet Samuel; 1 Samuel 1:1)
  • Another transliteration of the Japanese word "tofu"

In Hebrew

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  • Tohu wa-bohu, the Hebrew phrase from the Book of Genesis, usually translated "formless and empty"
  • Tohu and Tikun, 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")