תָּמַם tamam

Hebrew word for “to finish” · Strong’s H8552 · used 63 times in 61 verses

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Meaning

1) to be complete, be finished, be at an end;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tamam in context, with how often each is used:

• finished 14
• will meet their end 5
• had finished 5
• complete 5
• finished they 4
• complete they 2
• show yourself blameless 2
• have come to an end 2
• will be finished 2
• have met our end 2
• has been finished 1
• will be consumed 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 2 (3), Joshua 4 (3), Jeremiah 44 (3), Genesis 47 (2), Numbers 14 (2), Deuteronomy 31 (2), Joshua 3 (2), Joshua 5 (2), Ezekiel 24 (2), Leviticus 25 (1)

Forms

• תם 14
• תמו 11
• תמם 6
• יתמו 5
• תמנו 4
• ויתם 2
• ותתם 2
• התמו 2
• תתמם 2
• תתם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tamam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עַד ad “till” 24
• רָעָב raav “famine” 6
• כָּלָה kalah “to end” 7
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 7
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 8
• מִן־ min “from” 9
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 7
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 6
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 5
• עִיר ir “city” 7
• אֲרוֹן aron “ark” 4
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 5

Key verses

The verses using tamam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 2:14 — And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of…
• Joshua 3:16 — That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward…
• 1 Kings 14:10 — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and…
• Psalms 9:6 — O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
• Psalms 73:19 — How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
• Isaiah 33:1 — Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,…
• Jeremiah 14:15 — Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land;…
• Jeremiah 37:21 — Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the…
• Lamentations 3:22 — It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
• Ezekiel 22:15 — And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
• Daniel 8:23 — And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall…
• Daniel 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.