תָּמַםtâmam
be complete, finished
Pronunciation: taw-mam' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8552
Meanings
Qal
1. be finished, completed (Deuteronomy 31:24; Deuteronomy 31:30; Job 31:40)
2. be finished, come to an end, cease (Genesis 47:18; Leviticus 25:29; Jeremiah 1:3)
3. be complete (1 Samuel 16:11)
4. be consumed, exhausted, spent (Genesis 47:15; Genesis 47:18; Leviticus 26:20)
5. be finished, consumed, destroyed (Numbers 14:33; Numbers 14:35; Numbers 17:28)
6. be complete, sound, unimpaired (Psalms 19:14)
7. twice, very strangely, si vera 1., transitive (Psalms 64:7; Jeremiah 27:8)
Hiph`il: construct, id. (Ezekiel 22:15; 2 Samuel 20:18; 2 Kings 22:4)
1. finish, complete, perfect (2 Samuel 20:18; Ezekiel 24:10)
2. finish, cease doing (Isaiah 33:1)
3. complete, sum up (2 Kings 22:4; Daniel 8:23; Daniel 9:24)
4. destroy (Ezekiel 22:15)
5. causative (of Qal 6) (Job 22:3)
Hithpa`el: (late, see Qal 6) (2 Samuel 22:26; Psalms 18:26)
Same root
- מְתֹםmᵉthôm · H4974wholesomeness; also (adverb) completely
- תָּםtâm · H8535complete; usually (morally) pious; specifically, gentle, dear
- תֹּםtôm · H8537completeness; figuratively, prosperity; usually (morally) innocence
- תָּמִיםtâmîym · H8549entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth
Where it appears
Appears 63 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 47:15 When the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. “Our money is gone!” they cried. “But please give us food, or we will die before your very eyes!”
- Genesis 47:18 But that year ended, and the next year they came again and said, “We cannot hide the truth from you, my lord. Our money is gone, and all our livestock and cattle are yours. We have nothing left to give but our bodies and our land.
- Leviticus 25:29 “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.
- Leviticus 26:20 All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.
- Numbers 14:33 And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:35 I, the Lord, have spoken! I will certainly do these things to every member of the community who has conspired against me. They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die!”
See every passage
- Genesis 47:15, 47:18
- Leviticus 25:29, 26:20
- Numbers 14:33, 14:35, 17:13, 32:13
- Deuteronomy 2:14, 2:15, 2:16, 31:24, 31:30, 34:8
- Joshua 3:16, 3:17, 4:1, 4:10, 4:11, 5:6, 5:8, 8:24, 10:20
- 1 Samuel 16:11
- 2 Samuel 15:24, 20:18, 22:26
- 1 Kings 6:22, 7:22, 14:10
- 2 Kings 7:13, 22:4
- Job 22:3, 31:40
- Psalms 9:6, 18:25, 19:13, 64:6, 73:19, 102:27, 104:35
- Isaiah 16:4, 18:5, 33:1
- Jeremiah 1:3, 14:15, 24:10, 27:8, 36:23, 37:21, 44:12, 44:18, 44:27
- Lamentations 3:22, 4:22
- Ezekiel 22:15, 24:10, 24:11, 47:12
- Daniel 8:23, 9:24
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).