Hebrew adjective · H8535
תָּם
tamtawm
complete
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8535is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8535
complete; usually (morally) pious; specifically, gentle, dear
The King James renders it: coupled together, perfect, plain, undefiled, upright.
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
tam is rendered "complete". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
Genesis 25:27תָּ֔ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- blameless8
- a blameless2
- complete2
- perfect my2
- from a fire it is complete1
- quiet1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תָּם | tam | there | Uses4 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- תָּ֧ם3
- תָּ֑ם2
- תָּֽם־2
- תַמִּים֙2
- תַמָּתִ֔י2
- מֵאֵ֖שׁ תַּ֣ם1
- תָ֑ם1
- תָּ֔ם1
- תָּ֭ם1
- תָּ֥ם1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular11HAamsa
- adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HAafsc/Sp1bs
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- HR/Ncbsa//Aamsa1HR/Ncbsa//Aamsa
Genesis
one use
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
- תָּ֔םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: quiet
Exodus
two uses
coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
- תַמִּים֙tamimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: complete
coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.
- תַמִּים֙tamimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: complete
Job
seven uses
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
- תָּ֧םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
- תָּ֧םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
- תָּ֧םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- תָּ֑םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: a blameless
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- תָּֽם־tam-adjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- תָּֽם־tam-adjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- תָּ֥םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
Psalms
two uses
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
- תָּ֭םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
- תָּ֑םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: blameless
Proverbs
one use
Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.
- תָ֑םtamadjective · masculine singulartagged: a blameless
Song of Solomon
two uses
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- תַמָּתִ֔יtamatiadjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: perfect my
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
- תַמָּתִ֔יtamatiadjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: perfect my
Jeremiah
one use
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
- מֵאֵ֖שׁ תַּ֣םmeish tamHR/Ncbsa//Aamsatagged: from a fire it is complete
The letters
Gematria 440· 1,000 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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.