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# תָּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8535

**complete** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

complete [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8535/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּם: adj. complete [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8535/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. complete;—ת׳ Gn 25:27 + 10 times; sf. תַּמָּתִי Ct 5:2; 6:9 (late, except Gn 25:27);— complete, perfect: in beauty Ct 5:2; 6:9; of physical strength ψ 73:4 (read לָ֑מוֹ תָּם Ew De DrSam xxxi Che Bae al.). sound, wholesome: אִישׁ תָּם, of Jacob as tent-dweller, opp. Esau, hunter, Gn 25:27 (J; De leutseliger Mann, Di ruhig, still, AV RV plain man; ת׳ here poss. redactional, = 3). complete, morally innocent, having integrity: אִישׁ תָּם Jb 1:8; 2:3; ת׳ alone 1:1; 8:20; 9:20, 21, 22 Pr 29:10 ψ 37:37; 64:5.—תַּמִּים Ex 26:24; 36:29 v. \[תָּאם\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] blameless (3); blameless (3); \[am\] blameless (2).

## In the verses

[Job 9:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.21/#tree)

תָּֽם־אָ֭נִי לֹֽא־אֵדַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֗י אֶמְאַ֥ס חַיָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[am\].blameless I not I.know self my I.reject life my

*JPS 1917:* I am innocent — I regard not myself, I despise my life.

[Proverbs 29:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.10/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֣י דָ֭מִים יִשְׂנְאוּ־תָ֑ם וִֽ֝ישָׁרִ֗ים יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* people of.blood(s) they.hate a.blameless.\[person\] and upright.\[people\] they.seek life his

*JPS 1917:* The men of blood hate him that is sincere; and as for the upright, they seek his life.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8535.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8535/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).