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Lexicon :: Strong's H8552 - tāmam

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תָּמַם
Transliteration
tāmam
Pronunciation
taw-mam'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2522

Strong’s Definitions

תָּמַם tâmam, taw-mam'; a primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive:—accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, × be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x

The KJV translates Strong's H8552 in the following manner: consume (26x), end (9x), finished (4x), clean (3x), upright (3x), spent (3x), perfect (2x), done (2x), failed (2x), accomplish (2x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x
The KJV translates Strong's H8552 in the following manner: consume (26x), end (9x), finished (4x), clean (3x), upright (3x), spent (3x), perfect (2x), done (2x), failed (2x), accomplish (2x), miscellaneous (8x).

  1. to be complete, be finished, be at an end

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be finished, be completed

        1. completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb)

      2. to be finished, come to an end, cease

      3. to be complete (of number)

      4. to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent

      5. to be finished, be consumed, be destroyed

      6. to be complete, be sound, be unimpaired, be upright (ethically)

      7. to complete, finish

      8. to be completely crossed over

    2. (Niphal) to be consumed

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to finish, complete, perfect

      2. to finish, cease doing, leave off doing

      3. to complete, sum up, make whole

      4. to destroy (uncleanness)

      5. to make sound

    4. (Hithpael) to deal in integrity, act uprightly

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תָּמַם tâmam, taw-mam'; a primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive:—accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, × be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
STRONGS H8552: Abbreviations
† [תָּמַם], תַּם verb be complete, finished (Arabic bdb107004 id., Phoenician תם, Syriac bdb107005 derived species and derivatives; compare Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (rare), Aramaic תְּמִימָא, bdb107006 perfect); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular תַּם Genesis 47:18 + 3 times (+ Qr מֵאֵשׁ֯ תַּם Jeremiah 6:29); 3rd person plural תַּמּוּ Deuteronomy 2:16 +; תָּ֑מּוּ 2 Kings 7:13; 1st person plural תַּמְנוּ (Ges§ 67dd) Numbers 17:28 [Numbers 17:13]; Psalm 64:7; תָּ֑מְנוּ Jeremiah 44:18; (Lamentations 3:22 read תַּמּוּ Targum Syriac Version Ew Löhr Bu); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִתֹּם (Ges§ 67g) Genesis 47:15; Ezekiel 47:12; 3rd person feminine singular תִתֻּם Ezekiel 24:11 (Ges§ 67q; strike out Co), תִּתֹּם Genesis 47:18; 1 Kings 7:22; 1st person singular אֵיתָ֑ם Psalm 19:14; 3rd person masculine plural יִתַּ֫מּוּ Numbers 14:35 +, וַיִּתְּמוּ Deuteronomy 34:8; Infinitive construct תֹּם Leviticus 25:29 + 10 times; תָּםֿ Isaiah 18:5; suffix תֻּתִּי Jeremiah 27:8 + 7 times suffix; —
1. be finished, completed; the writing of words Deuteronomy 31:24, 30 (see Dr.; J), Job 31:40; building of temple 1 Kings 6:22, compare 1 Kings 7:22; fulfilled, י׳'s command (by obedience) Joshua 4:10 (E); as auxiliary + finite verb = completely, wholly, entirely, תַּמּוּ נִבְתָ֑וּ Joshua 3:16 (E) were wholly cut off; סָפוּ תַמּוּ Psalm 73:19 entirely consumed; followed by ל infinitive: תַּמּוּ לעבור were finished in regard to, etc., i.e. were entirely passed over Joshua 3:17; Joshua 4:1, 11 (JE) 2 Samuel 15:24; לחמּול Joshua 5:8 (E) entirely circumcised, Numbers 17:28.
2. be finished, come to an end, cease: the year, Genesis 47:18 (J), Leviticus 25:29 (P), Jeremiah 1:3; the years of י׳ have no end Psalm 102:28; days of weeping Deuteronomy 34:8 (P), compare Lamentations 4:22; also Isaiah 18:5; Lamentations 3:22.
3. be complete, of number, 1 Samuel 16:11.
4. be consumed, exhausted, spent: silver Genesis 47:15, 18 (J); strength Leviticus 26:20 (H); lead Jeremiah 6:29 (Qr); bread Jeremiah 37:21; fruit Ezekiel 47:12; rust Ezekiel 24:11.
5. be finished, consumed, destroyed: people Numbers 14:33 (J), Numbers 14:35; Numbers 17:28 (P; || מות). Numbers 32:13 (J), Joshua 8:24; Joshua 10:20 (JE), Deuteronomy 2:14, 15, 16; Joshua 5:6 (D), 1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 7:13; Isaiah 16:4; Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 27:8; Jeremiah 36:23; Jeremiah 44:12 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 44:18, 27; Psalm 9:7 (but read דַּמּוּ), Psalm 104:35.
6. be complete, sound, unimpaired, ethically, Psalm 19:14 (|| נִקָּה; late).
7. twice, very strangely, si vera lectio, transitive: Psalm 64:7 תמנו we have completed (read probably הֲתִמֹּנוּ); Jeremiah 27:8 עַדתֻּֿמֹּי אֹתָם בְּיָדוֺ (read with Gr תִּתִּי).
Hiph. Perfect 1st person singular הֲתִמֹּ֫תִי Ezekiel 22:15; 3rd person masculine plural הֵחַמּ֫וּ 2 Samuel 20:18; Imperfect יַתֵּם 2 Kings 22:4; 2nd person masculine singular תַּתֵּם Job 22:3 (Ges§ 67y); Infinitive absolute הָחֵם Ezekiel 24:10; construct, id., Daniel 8:23 + Daniel 9:24 Qr (see Dr.); suffix הֲתִֽמְךְ (Ges§ 67v) Isaiah 33:1; —
1. finish, complete, perfect, a matter 2 Samuel 20:18 (but Qal, come to an end, with ה interrogative, We Dr and others); flesh in cooking Ezekiel 24:10.
2. finish, cease doing a thing, followed by participle (Ges§ 120b), שׁוֺדֵד Isaiah 33:1.
3. complete, sum up, with accusative money 2 Kings 22:4 (other conjectures Klo Gr Gi); transgressions Daniel 8:23; sin Daniel 9:24 (Qr; Kt חתם).
4. destroy uncleanness, with מן from, Ezekiel 22:15.
5. causative (of Qal 6): accusative דרכיך Job 22:3 make sound thy ways.
Hithp. Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular תִּתַּמָּם 2 Samuel 22:26, with עִם deal in integrity with = Psalm 18:26 (late, see Qal 6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

47:15; 47:15; 47:18; 47:18; 47:18; 47:18

Leviticus

25:29; 25:29; 26:20

Numbers

14:33; 14:35; 14:35; 17:13; 32:13

Deuteronomy

2:14; 2:15; 2:16; 2:16; 31:24; 31:30; 34:8; 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; 20:18; 22:26

1 Kings

6:22; 7:22; 7:22; 14:10

2 Kings

7:13; 7:13; 22:4; 22:4

Job

22:3; 22:3; 31:40

Psalms

9:7; 18:26; 19:14; 19:14; 64:7; 64:7; 73:19; 102:28; 104:35

Isaiah

16:4; 18:5; 18:5; 33:1; 33:1

Jeremiah

1:3; 6:29; 6:29; 14:15; 24:10; 27:8; 27:8; 27:8; 36:23; 37:21; 44:12; 44:18; 44:18; 44:27

Lamentations

3:22; 3:22; 4:22

Ezekiel

22:15; 22:15; 24:10; 24:10; 24:11; 24:11; 47:12; 47:12

Daniel

8:23; 8:23; 9:24; 9:24

H8552

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Strong's Number H8552 matches the Hebrew תָּמַם (tāmam),
which occurs 63 times in 61 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 47:15–Jer 37:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - I, the LORD, have said, "I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!"'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:13 - (17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - So the LORD's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15 - Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:16 - So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:24 - When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:30 - Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - The Israelites mourned for Moses in the deserts of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the LORD and the priests crossed as the people looked on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the desert (they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Is that all of the young men?" Jesse replied, "There is still the youngest one, but he's taking care of the flock." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - She said, "In the past they would always say, 'Let them inquire in Abel,' and that is how they settled things.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:26 - You prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:22 - He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:22 - The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - So I am ready to bring disaster on the dynasty of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:3 - Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 - then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - The enemy's cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:25 - You prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:13 - Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:6 - They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man's inner thoughts cannot be discovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:27 - But you remain; your years do not come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:35 - May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Please let the Moabite fugitives live among you. Hide them from the destroyer!" Certainly the one who applies pressure will cease, the destroyer will come to an end, those who trample will disappear from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:5 - For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:1 - The destroyer is as good as dead, you who have not been destroyed! The deceitful one is as good as dead, the one whom others have not deceived! When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed; when you finish deceiving, others will deceive you!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - The LORD also spoke to him when Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruled over Judah, and he continued to speak to him until the fifth month of the eleventh year that Zedekiah son of Josiah ruled over Judah. That was when the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying, 'No war or famine will happen in this land.' But I, the LORD, say this about them: 'War and starvation will kill those prophets.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the LORD, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:23 - As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

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