תָּמַם
ta.mam
“to finish”
Definition
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
a primitive root;
- to be complete, be finished, be at an end 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be finished, be completed 1a1a) completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb) 1a2) to be finished, come to an end, cease 1a3) to be complete (of number) 1a4) to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent 1a5) to be finished, be consumed, be destroyed 1a6) to be complete, be sound, be unimpaired, be upright (ethically) 1a7) to complete, finish 1a8) to be completely crossed over 1b) (Niphal) to be consumed 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to finish, complete, perfect 1c2) to finish, cease doing, leave off doing 1c3) to complete, sum up, make whole 1c4) to destroy (uncleanness) 1c5) to make sound 1d) (Hithpael) to deal in integrity, act uprightly
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Verb
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
תָּמַם appears 55 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam:I will cut off from Jeroboam every male,both slave and free,in Israel;I will burn up the house of Jeroboamas one burns up dung until it is gone!
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
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