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# תֹּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8537

**completeness** — used 23 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

completeness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8537/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּם²: completeness, integrity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8537/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] completeness, integrity;—תֹּם abs. Pr 10:29 +; cstr. Jb 4:6 ψ 78:72, cstr. also תָּם־ Pr 13:6 + 4 times; sf. תֻּמִּי ψ 26:1 + 11 times sf.; pl. תֻּמִּים Ex 28:30 + 3 times; sf. תֻּמֶּיךָ Dt 33:8;— completeness, fulness: כְּתֻמָּם Is 47:9 2 בְּעֶצֶם תֻּמּוֹ Jb 21:23 in his very completeness. innocence, simplicity: הלכים לתמם 2 S 15:11; מָשַׁךְ בַּקֶּשֶׁת לְתֻמּוֹ 1 K 22:34 = 2 Ch 18:33, i.e. without definite aim. integrity: תֹּם לֵבָב integrity of mind Gn 20:5, 6 (E), 1 K 9:4 ψ 78:72; 101:2; תָּם־דֶּרֶךְ Pr 13:6; Jb 4:6; (הת)הלך בַּתֹּם Pr 10:9, בְּתֻמּוֹ 19:1; 20:7; 28:6, בְּתֻמִּי ψ 26:1, 11; הֹלְכֵי תֹם Pr 2:7; תֹּם רָישֶׁר ψ 25:21; בְּתֻמִּי 41:13; כְּתֻמִּי 7:9; מָעוֹז לַתֹּם Pr 10:29. תֻּמִּים in אוּרִים וְתֻמִּים (meaning dub., v., אורים) Dt 33:8, Ex 28:30 (P) Lv 8:8 (P), Ezr 2:63 = Ne 7:65; + 1 S 14:41 (for תָּמִים) We Dr Bu HPS; also Ho 3:4 (for תרפים) CheJQ, July 1899, 564 and 4:5 (תֻּמֶּ֑יךָ for אִמֶּ֑ךָ) RubenJQ, April 1899, 44 Che l.c..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 2 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: integrity (11); the integrity (4); innocence (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 25:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.21/#tree)

תֹּם־וָיֹ֥שֶׁר יִצְּר֑וּנִי כִּ֝֗י קִוִּיתִֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* integrity and uprightness may they.preserve.me (dm) I have.waited.for.you

*JPS 1917:* Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.

[Proverbs 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/#tree)

צְ֭דָקָה תִּצֹּ֣ר תָּם־דָּ֑רֶךְ וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה תְּסַלֵּ֥ף חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* righteousness it.preserves integrity of.way and wickedness it.subverts sin

*JPS 1917:* Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8537.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8537/): 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).