no image, trying to picture the void
Should you try this at home? I mean in fiction, of course, writing it fictionally. I’m guessing it's pretty impossible. Tried doing it the other day, and guess what?--there's always something. Something.
The other day the desire for this word told so I looked it up along with citations in a KJV search engine, printing out 3 pages of verses with the word contained: Void. Interesting to see how the word, or any individual word is used in scripture (love is another one I’ve been doing--lots there, and reading one a day I’m far from done). There were 30 matches for void, 5 of which were Apocryphal.
Maybe the reason i'm interested in this word is because i understand nothing about nothing. I think I understand lack of something somewhere, but not nothing. I can't help but think there is no Nothing. Even Space is not nothing physicists say. Can we think about the subject without a symbol?--a symbol is something. A 0 is not nothing, and so on.
"The Earth Was Without Form And Void."
Does that mean unproductive? When something is formless it is still something, even something (really) having a form, but an unworked form.
A lot of kjv void uses relate to lack of understanding. "He that followeth vain persons is void of understanding." And it relates to nullify: "Or her husband may make it void." "They have made void thy law." Negation, taking away from someone or place. But there is also a strong verse that seems to negate that last quote, or at least to make it relate to human imagining: "[My word] shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please...."
The Big Picture is missing from all these, making me wonder if there is A Nothing out of which God made all things. I think of darkness when i try to think of void. But Void would mean absence of darkness as well. "I beheld the earth and lo it was without form and void, and the heavens and they had no light." Does that mean Darkness? Or just the absence of the proper receptor for either darkness or light? Absence of energy, ignited Energy. Particle physics seems to prove there is always something*: We just don't have the right receptors for it. Heb.11 [3] "Things which are seen were not made of things which do appear:" ... because, i'm guessing, they are too small for us to see except when there are a bunch of them together, say in the form of a book or a spouse or a fragrant meatball in a nest of linguine. How about that smell? It's meatball molecules in my nostrils.
The meaning of the first verse containing void must not refer to The Big Void, but relate to empty-seeming, kinda like the spare room. N1JXQ says it may mean like the big gas planets, the "waters" being gaseous in form. Remember the ancient & classical times were smart times out of which our thinkers build, and thinkers back then were happily thinking —not flat-earthers like regular people.
So, I guess the big picture void is out. Next Stop The Abyss. Bet I can't do that one either.
A bit later: finding no abyss in scripture. Maybe I should try pit?