the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

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=====beho=====
בהו

The word beho appears only three times in the entire Hebrew scriptures, making it difficult to cross-reference to determine an exact meaning. However a general sense can be gleaned by the fact that in each case, the word occurs in a rhyming couplet with the word '[[teho]]', which does have a known meaning of "useless".

See [[Genesis 1]], Isaiah 34:11, Jeremiah 4:23

Contextually, it is clearly a derogatory statement, probably meaning something like "junk" or "crap". 

====Empty Nothingness====
Typically, the [[traditional]] translations have interpreted 'teho beho' as "empty and void" but this misrepresents the semantics of both the words.

We know that [[teho]] is "useless", not "emptyness" 

There is no evidence that beho should be understood as "nothingness" or "void". In fact a surfeit of words already exists for these concepts.
There are a lot of words that are typically translated as "nothing"

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