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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H2942

טְעֵם

teemteh-ame'

command

28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ṭᵉʻêm

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2942is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2942

properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively)

The King James renders it: [phrase] chancellor, [phrase] command, commandment, decree, [phrase] regard, taste, wisdom.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

teem is rendered "command". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Twenty of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:8Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

Ezra 4:8טְעֵ֗ם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Ezra.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a decree17
  • command3
  • decree of2
  • discretion2
  • and according to decree of1
  • and discretion1
  • decree the1
  • in taste of1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 28, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • טְעֵ֔ם7
  • טְעֵם֒7
  • טְעֵ֗ם4
  • טַ֙עַם֙2
  • בִּטְעֵ֣ם1
  • וּטְעֵ֔ם1
  • וּמִטְּעֵם֙1
  • טְעֵם֙1
  • טְעֵ֑ם1
  • טְּעֵם֒1
  • טְּעֵ֔ם1
  • טַעְמָ֥א1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular22ANcbsa
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2ANcbsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1AC/Ncbsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AC/R/Ncbsc
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1ANcbsd/Ta
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AR/Ncbsc

Ezra

twenty uses
  • Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

    Ezra 4:8

    • טְעֵ֗םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: command
  • From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,

    Ezra 4:9

    • טְעֵ֗םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: command
  • Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.

    Ezra 4:17

    • טְעֵם֙teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: command
  • I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.

    Ezra 4:19

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.

    Ezra 4:21

    • טְּעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
    • טַעְמָ֥אta'ma'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: decree the
  • At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

    Ezra 5:3

    • טְעֵ֗םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

    Ezra 5:9

    • טְעֵ֗םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

    Ezra 5:13

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

    Ezra 5:17

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.

    Ezra 6:1

    • טְעֵ֑םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

    Ezra 6:3

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

    Ezra 6:8

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

    Ezra 6:11

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.

    Ezra 6:12

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

    Ezra 6:14

    • טַ֙עַם֙taamnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: decree of
    • וּמִטְּעֵם֙umiteemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and according to decree of
  • I hereby decree that any volunteers among the Israelites in my kingdom, including the priests and Levites, may go up with you to Jerusalem.

    Ezra 7:13

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • I, King Artaxerxes, decree to all the treasurers west of the Euphrates: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it must be provided promptly,

    Ezra 7:21

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?

    Ezra 7:23

    • טַ֙עַם֙taamnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: decree of

Daniel

eight uses
  • When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon, Daniel replied with discretion and tact.

    Daniel 2:14

    • וּטְעֵ֔םuteemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and discretion
  • You, O king, have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the golden statue,

    Daniel 3:10

    • טְּעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”

    Daniel 3:12

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: discretion
  • Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

    Daniel 3:29

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • So I issued a decree that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.

    Daniel 4:6

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree
  • Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

    Daniel 5:2

    • בִּטְעֵ֣םbitempreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in taste of
  • Then they told the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed. He still makes his petition three times a day.”

    Daniel 6:13

    • טְעֵ֔םteemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: discretion
  • I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.

    Daniel 6:26

    • טְעֵם֒teemnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a decree

The letters

Gematria 119· 679 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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