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# תֻּמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8538

**integrity** — used 5 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

integrity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8538/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֻּמָּה: n.f. integrity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8538/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. integrity (late);—cstr. תֻּמַּת Pr 11:3; sf. תֻּמָּתִי Jb 27:5; 31:6; תֻּמָּתֶ֑ךָ 2:9; תֻּמָּתוֹ v 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: integrity (4); \[the\] integrity (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.3/#tree)

תֻּמַּ֣ת יְשָׁרִ֣ים תַּנְחֵ֑ם וְסֶ֖לֶף בּוֹגְדִ֣ים יְשָׁדֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].integrity of.upright.\[people\] it guides.them and.\[the\] perverseness of.\[those.who\].act.treacherously it destroys.them

*JPS 1917:* The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them.

[Job 31:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.6/#tree)

יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי בְמֹאזְנֵי־צֶ֑דֶק וְיֵדַ֥ע אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ תֻּמָּתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* let him.weigh.me in balances of.righteousness and let.him.acknowledge God integrity my

*JPS 1917:* Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8538.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8538/): 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).