Tohu

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Tohu was a biblical person named in the Old Testament as one of the ancestors of the prophet Samuel .

etymology

The personal name תֹּחוּ toḥû , German 'Tohu' ( 1 Sam 1,1  OT ) is a one-word name. Martin Noth derives it from the Akkadian taḫū and translates “child”. In 1 Chr 6:19  OT the name is תֹּוחַ tôaḥ . The Septuagint gives the name as Θοκε Toke or Θιε Tie , the Vulgate as Thau or Thou (in 1 Chr 6,34  VUL ).

Tohu's son is called Elihu in the book of Samuel, but Eliël in the book of the Chronicles.

Mentions in the Bible

In 1 Samuel  1, 1  LUT he is mentioned in a list of the ancestors of Elkanah , the father of the prophet Samuel. There the belonging to the Israelite tribe Ephraim is emphasized.

The family tree of Samuel, in which Tohu is also mentioned, is also described in 1. Chronicle  6, 18-23  LUT . There the family is counted among the Levitical singing families who were appointed by King David to serve at the tabernacle after their move to Jerusalem until the temple was built by Solomon . The author of the chronicle is likely to have counted the family among the Levites because of Samuel's priestly functions.

literature

  • Art. תֹּוחַ, In: Gesenius, 18th edition 2013 , p. 1428.
  • Martin Noth : The Israelite personal names in the context of the common emitic naming , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1928, p. 221.260.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , pp. 344 and 517
personal data
SURNAME Tohu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ancestor of the prophet Samuel
DATE OF BIRTH before 10th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH before 10th century BC Chr.