תָּמַם

Strong’s Definition

to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

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.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to be complete, be finished, be at an end
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(niphal) to be consumed
• 4.(hiphil)
• 5.(hithpael) to deal in integrity, act uprightly

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: tâmam; Pronunciation: taw-mam'