Strong H8552תָּמַם

to finish

Transliteration
tâmam
Pronunciation
taw-mam'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to {complete} in a good or a bad {sense} literally or {figuratively} transitively or intransitively: - {accomplish} {cease} be clean [pass-] {ed} {consume} have {done} (come to {an} make an) {end} {fail} come to the {full} be all {gone} X be all {here} be (make) {perfect} be {spent} {sum} be (shew self) {upright} be {wasted} whole.

Detailed definition

1) to be complete, be finished, be at an end
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be finished, be completed
1a1a) completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb)
1a2) to be finished, come to an end, cease
1a3) to be complete (of number)
1a4) to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent
1a5) to be finished, be consumed, be destroyed
1a6) to be complete, be sound, be unimpaired, be upright (ethically)
1a7) to complete, finish
1a8) to be completely crossed over
1b) (Niphal) to be consumed
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to finish, complete, perfect
1c2) to finish, cease doing, leave off doing
1c3) to complete, sum up, make whole
1c4) to destroy (uncleanness)
1c5) to make sound
1d) (Hithpael) to deal in integrity, act uprightly

In the Bible

Strong H8552 appears in 62 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • consume24
  • end8
  • be4
  • finish4
  • spend3
  • upright3
  • accomplish2
  • consumed2
  • fail2
  • waste2
  • cease1
  • clean1

First verses

  1. Genesis 47:15
    And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
  2. Genesis 47:18
    When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
  3. Leviticus 25:29
    And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
  4. Leviticus 26:20
    And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
  5. Numbers 14:33
    And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
  6. Numbers 14:35
    I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
  7. Numbers 17:13
    Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
  8. Numbers 32:13
    And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.
  9. Deuteronomy 2:14
    And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
  10. Deuteronomy 2:15
    For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
  11. Deuteronomy 2:16
    So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
  12. Deuteronomy 31:24
    And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
  13. Deuteronomy 31:30
    And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
  14. Deuteronomy 34:8
    And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
  15. Joshua 3:16
    That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
  16. Joshua 3:17
    And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
  17. Joshua 4:1
    And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
  18. Joshua 4:10
    For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
  19. Joshua 4:11
    And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
  20. Joshua 5:6
    For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
See every occurrence

Occurrences by book

Related words