"tohu-bohu" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hbo",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Biblical Hebrew",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Biblical Hebrew תוהו ובוהו, from תֹהוּ (tóhu, “nothingness, void”) + בֹּהוּ (bóhu, “emptiness, desolation”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "tohu-bohu"
      },
      "expansion": "tohu-bohu (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "to‧hu‧bo‧hu"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, William Gladstone, Gleanings of Past Years, section VI:",
          "text": "Yet a judge may […] be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, W. H. Auden, In Sickness and in Health:",
          "text": "[…] / The decorative manias we obey / Die in grimaces round us every day, / Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice / Which utters an absurd command — Rejoice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Chaos, disorder, confusion."
      ],
      "id": "en-tohu-bohu-en-noun-IAj33RJs",
      "links": [
        [
          "Chaos",
          "chaos"
        ],
        [
          "disorder",
          "disorder"
        ],
        [
          "confusion",
          "confusion"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tohubohu"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "formless chaos; void",
          "word": "tohuvabohuo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "formless chaos; void",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tohu-bohu"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "formless chaos; void",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Tohuwabohu"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "formless chaos; void",
          "word": "tohuvabohu"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "tohu wa-bohu"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtəʊ.huːˈbəʊ.huː/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtoʊ.huˈboʊ.hu/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tohu-bohu"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hbo",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Biblical Hebrew",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Biblical Hebrew תוהו ובוהו, from תֹהוּ (tóhu, “nothingness, void”) + בֹּהוּ (bóhu, “emptiness, desolation”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "tohu-bohu"
      },
      "expansion": "tohu-bohu (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "to‧hu‧bo‧hu"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Biblical Hebrew",
        "English terms derived from Biblical Hebrew",
        "English terms derived from the Bible",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with redundant head parameter",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, William Gladstone, Gleanings of Past Years, section VI:",
          "text": "Yet a judge may […] be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, W. H. Auden, In Sickness and in Health:",
          "text": "[…] / The decorative manias we obey / Die in grimaces round us every day, / Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice / Which utters an absurd command — Rejoice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Chaos, disorder, confusion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chaos",
          "chaos"
        ],
        [
          "disorder",
          "disorder"
        ],
        [
          "confusion",
          "confusion"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "tohu wa-bohu"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtəʊ.huːˈbəʊ.huː/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tohu-bohu.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtoʊ.huˈboʊ.hu/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tohubohu"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "formless chaos; void",
      "word": "tohuvabohuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "formless chaos; void",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tohu-bohu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "formless chaos; void",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Tohuwabohu"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "formless chaos; void",
      "word": "tohuvabohu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tohu-bohu"
}