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STRONGS NUMBER H8552
Transliteration: tamam
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-mam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be complete or finished
Meaning: to be complete or finished
Word Summary
tamam: to be complete or finished
Original Word: תָּמַםTransliteration: tamam
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-mam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be complete or finished
Meaning: to be complete or finished
Strong's Concordance
accomplish, cease, be clean passed, consume, have done, come to an endA primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive (as follows) -- 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, X be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8552. tamam
[תָּמַם], תַּם verb be complete, finished (Arabic id., Phoenician תם, Syriac derived species and derivatives; compare Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (rare), Aramaic תְּמִימָא, perfect); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular תַּם Genesis 47:18 3t. (+ Qr תַּם מֵאֵשׁ֯ Jeremiah 6:29); 3plural תַּמּוּ Deuteronomy 2:16 +; תָּ֑מּוּ 2 Kings 7:13; 1plural תַּמְנוּ (Ges§ 67dd) Numbers 17:28; Psalm 64:7; תָּ֑מְנוּ Jeremiah 44:18; (Lamentations 3:22 read ᵑ6 ᵑ7 תַּמּוּ Ew Löhr Bu); Imperfect3masculine singular יִתֹּם (Ges§ 67g) Genesis 47:15; Ezekiel 47:12; 3feminine singular תִתֻּם 24:11 (Ges§ 67q; strike out Co), תִּתֹּם Genesis 47:18; 1 Kings 7:22; 1singular אֵיתָ֑ם Psalm 19:14; 3masculine plural יִתַּ֫מּוּ Numbers 14:35 +, וַיִּתְּמוּ Deuteronomy 34:8; Infinitive construct תֹּם Leviticus 25:29 10t.; תָּםֿ Isaiah 18:5; suffix תֻּתִּי Jeremiah 27:8 7t. 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 7:22; fulfilled, ׳י's command (by obedience) Joshua 4:10 (E); as auxil. + finite verb = completely, wholly, entirely, נִבְתָ֑וּ תַּמּוּ 3:16 (E) were wholly cut off; תַמּוּ סָפוּ Psalm 73:19 entirely consumed; followed by ל infinitive: לעבור תַּמּוּ were finished in regard to, etc., i.e. were entirely passed over Joshua 3:17; 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 37:21; fruit Ezekiel 47:12; rust 24:11.
5 be finished, consumed, destroyed: people Numbers 14:33 (J), 14:35; Numbers 17:28 (P; "" מות). 32:13 (J), Joshua 8:24; 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; 24:10; 27:8; 36:23; 44:12 (twice in verse); 44:18, 27; Psalm 9:7 (but read דַּמּוּ), 104:35.
6 be complete, sound, unimpaired, ethically, Psalm 19:14 ("" נִקָּה; late).
7 twice, very strangely, si vera 1., transitive: Psalm 64:7 תמנו we have completed (read probably הֲתִמֹּנוּ); Jeremiah 27:8 בְּיָדוֺ אֹתָם עַדתֻּֿמֹּי (read with Gr תִּתִּי).
Hiph`il Perfect1singular הֲתִמֹּ֫תִי Ezekiel 22:15; 3masculine plural הֵחַמּ֫וּ 2 Samuel 20:18; Imperfect יַתֵּם 2 Kings 22:4; 2masculine singular תַּתֵּם Job 22:3 (Ges§ 67y); Infinitive absolute הָחֵם Ezekiel 24:10; construct, id., Daniel 8:23 + 9:24 Qr (see Dr.); suffix הֲִתמְךְ (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 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.
Hithpa`el Imperfect2masculine singular תִּתַּמָּם 2 Samuel 22:26, with עִם deal in integrity with = Psalm 18:26 (late, see Qal 6).