Hebrew verb · H8552
תָּמַם
tamamtaw-mam'
to finish
63 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâmam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8552is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 50spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8552
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
The King James renders it: 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.
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
tamam is rendered "to finish". It stands 63 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:15When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
- The Greek text spells it fifty different ways.
The first use
When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
Genesis 47:15וַיִּתֹּ֣ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- was finished8
- they had finished4
- they will meet their end3
- were finished they3
- and it was finished2
- and they will meet their end2
- they are finished2
- they have come to an end2
- we have met our end2
- were complete they2
- you show yourself blameless2
- ¿ are they finished1
and 30 more, 63 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 63, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
50 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
- תֹּ֥ם3
- תֹּם֙3
- תַּ֥מּוּ3
- יִתַּ֔מּוּ2
- תֹּ֨ם2
- תֹּ֣ם2
- תַּ֣מּוּ2
- תֻּמָּ֑ם2
- תֻּמָּֽם׃2
- תִּתַּמָּֽם׃2
- אֵיתָ֑ם1
- הָתֵ֖ם1
and 38 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)11HVqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural10HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HVqcc/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural5HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural4HVqp1cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
- Hc/Vqw3fs2Hc/Vqw3fs
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVti2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vhcc
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
- HC/Vhu3ms1HC/Vhu3ms
Genesis
three uses
When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
- וַיִּתֹּ֣םvaiyitomHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was finished
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.
- וַתִּתֹּם֮vatitomHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was finished
- תַּ֣םtamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been finished
Leviticus
two uses
If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
- תֹּ֖םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: is finished
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
- וְתַ֥םvetamHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be consumed
Numbers
four uses
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- תֹּ֥םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: are finished
I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- יִתַּ֖מּוּyitamuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will meet their end
Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”
- תַּ֖מְנוּtamnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: will we complete
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
- תֹּם֙tomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
Deuteronomy
six uses
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.
- תֹּ֨םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
- תֻּמָּֽם׃tumamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: were finished they
Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,
- תַּ֜מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had finished
When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
- תֻּמָּֽם׃tumamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: were complete they
Then Moses recited aloud to the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning to end:
- תֻּמָּֽם׃ פtumamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: were complete they
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
- וַֽיִּתְּמ֔וּvaiyitemuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were completed
Joshua
nine uses
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- תַּ֣מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were complete
The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
- תַּ֙מּוּ֙tamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had finished
When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
- תַּ֣מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had finished
Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,
- תֹּ֣םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
and after everyone had finished crossing, the priests with the ark of the LORD crossed in the sight of the people.
- תַּ֥םtamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had finished
For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- תֹּ֨םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
- תַּ֥מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had finished
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
- תֻּמָּ֑םtumamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: were finished they
So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.
- תֻּמָּ֑םtumamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: were finished they
1 Samuel
one use
And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
- הֲתַ֣מּוּhatamuquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: ¿ are they finished
2 Samuel
three uses
Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until the people had passed out of the city.
- תֹּ֥םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.
- הֵתַֽמּוּ׃hetamuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they ceased
To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
- תִּתַּמָּֽם׃titamamverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you show yourself blameless
1 Kings
three uses
So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
- תֹּ֣םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
- וַתִּתֹּ֖םvatitomHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was complete
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 Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
- תֻּמּֽוֹ׃tumoverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is complete it
2 Kings
two uses
But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
- תָּ֑מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have come to an end
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
- וְיַתֵּ֣םveyatemHC/Vhu3mstagged: so he may complete
Job
two uses
Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
- תַתֵּ֥םtatemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you make blameless
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- תַּ֝֗מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are finished
Psalms
seven uses
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- תַּ֥מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have come to an end
To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
- תִּתַּמָּֽם׃titamamverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you show yourself blameless
Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
- אֵיתָ֑םʾeitamverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will be blameless
They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
- תַּ֭מְנוּtamnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have finished
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- תַ֝֗מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are finished
But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.
- יִתָּֽמּוּ׃yitamuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will come to an end
May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
- יִתַּ֤מּוּyitamuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them be destroyed
Isaiah
three uses
Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
- תַּ֥מּוּtamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be finished
For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
- כְּתָם־ketom-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when is finished
Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
- כַּהֲתִֽמְךָ֤kahatimkhapreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: when finishing you
Jeremiah
ten uses
and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
- תֹּם֙tomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
- יִתַּ֔מּוּyitamuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will meet their end
And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
- תֻּמָּם֙tumamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: are finished they
As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
- תֻּמִּ֥יtumiverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have consumed I
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- תֹּם֙tomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was consumed
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
- תֹּ֥םtomverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was finished
And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- וְתַ֨מּוּvetamuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will meet their end
- יִתַּ֔מּוּyitamuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will meet their end
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.”
- תָּֽמְנוּ׃tamenuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have met our end
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
- וְתַמּוּ֩vetamuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will meet their end
Lamentations
two uses
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
- תָ֔מְנוּtamenuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have met our end
O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
- תַּם־tam-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will finish
Ezekiel
four uses
I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
- וַהֲתִמֹּתִ֥יvahatimotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make an end of
Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.
- הָתֵ֖םhatemverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: complete
Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.
- תִּתֻּ֖םtitumverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it may be consumed
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- יִתֹּ֣םyitomverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be finished
Daniel
two uses
In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.
- כְּהָתֵ֖םkehatempreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when are completed
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- וּלְהָתֵ֤םulachtomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to complete
The letters
Gematria 480· 1,040 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.
