Tothach (H8455) is a hapax legomenon — appearing only once in Scripture (Job 41:29) — referring to a wooden club or mace. It occurs in God's description of Leviathan, the great sea creature: 'Clubs [tothach] are regarded as straw' by this mighty beast. The context is God's challenge to Job from the whirlwind, cataloging the terror of Leviathan to demonstrate the unbridgeable gap between human power and divine might.
The Leviathan speeches in Job 40-41 are among the most theologically rich passages in Scripture. God uses the image of Leviathan — a creature beyond human control — to point to His own absolute sovereignty. Every human weapon (tothach, arrow, sling, javelin) is useless against Leviathan. If a created beast laughs at our armory, how much more incomprehensible is the power of its Creator? The theology is humility: before the God who tames Leviathan, human weapons are straw. Yet this same God fights for His people (Exod 14:14). Our weakness becomes His showcase.