תָּמַם
tâmam · taw-mam'
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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, [idiom] be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the mark, the covenant sign › water, chaos, the mighty deep › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The mark, the covenant sign of water, chaos, the mighty deep of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תָּמַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
63 occurrences · 63 OT · 0 NT · 50 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- until they were consumed2 · 6%
- were clean2 · 6%
- was consumed2 · 6%
- be consumed2 · 6%
- were consumed2 · 6%
- failed2 · 6%
- thou wilt shew thyself upright2 · 6%
- shall we be consumed1 · 3%
- they shall be consumed1 · 3%
- be wasted1 · 3%
- had done1 · 3%
- shall be spent1 · 3%
- was finished1 · 3%
- were wasted out1 · 3%
- it within a whole1 · 3%
- clean1 · 3%
- were ended1 · 3%
- until they were ended1 · 3%
- until they were finished1 · 3%
- and it came to pass, when they had done1 · 3%
- till they were consumed1 · 3%
- are here all1 · 3%
- is spent1 · 3%
- and so they ended1 · 3%
- was ended1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.