What does Tamam mean?

Tamam (תָּמַם, Strong's H8552) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive. The King James Bible translates it as 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, × be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.

What is the Strong's number for Tamam?

The Strong's number for Tamam (תָּמַם) is H8552. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Tamam (Strong’s H8552): Meaning in the Bible

Tamam (תָּמַם) is the Hebrew word numbered H8552 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive. In the King James Bible it is translated accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done.

תָּמַם

tâmam · Hebrew

Strong’s H8552 · taw-mam'

Original wordתָּמַם
Transliterationtâmam
Pronunciationtaw-mam'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH8552
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

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

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates 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, × be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tamam in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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