Strong's Hebrew · H8552

תָּמַם

tâmam · taw-mam'

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.

Definition

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

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 62 times in Scripture

Ezekiel 24:11

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.

Leviticus 26:20

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.

Numbers 14:35

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.”

Joshua 3:17

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.

Genesis 47:18

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.

Joshua 4:1

When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

Leviticus 25:29

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.

Numbers 14:33

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.

Genesis 47:15

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!”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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