tamam · be finished, be complete

What it means

tamam (תָּמַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be finished, be complete”.

Come to an end, be used up; be complete.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be over, reach its close.
2. To be completely destroyed.
3. To show oneself without fault or duplicity, like one who is upright before God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To come to an end, be used up; to be complete, whole. From there also to be blameless, without fault. Of the same root are תָּמִים (blameless, without defect, H8549) and תֹּם (integrity).

• A generation coming to an end in the wilderness Numbers 14:35Joshua 5:6Deuteronomy 2:14
• A period being completed, something running out Deuteronomy 34:8Genesis 47:18
• Finishing a work 1 Kings 6:22Deuteronomy 31:24
• “Your years will not come to an end” Psalms 102:27
• Being blameless Psalms 18:25Psalms 19:13

How we translate it

“End” 16 times, mostly in “come to an end” (Numbers 14:35); “had finished” 6, “consumed” 5, “ended” 3, “was finished” 3, “spent” 2 (Genesis 47:18); “were completed” with the days of mourning (Deuteronomy 34:8). When the sense is moral, “you show yourself blameless” or “I will be blameless” (Psalm 18:25; 19:13), so that the link with תָּמִים can be seen.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• end ×16
• had finished ×6
• consumed ×5
• ended ×3
• they were finished ×3
• was finished ×3
• finish ×2
• spent ×2
• you show yourself blameless ×2
• I have finished off ×1
• others ×20

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×9
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×7
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×11
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×2

• Genesis 47:15

  When the silver was gone from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread! Why should we die before you? For our silver is gone.”

• Genesis 47:18

  That year ended, and they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that the silver is spent and the herds of animals belong to my lord; nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our land.

• Leviticus 26:20

  And your strength will be spent in vain, and your land will not give its yield, and the tree of the land will not give its fruit.

• Numbers 14:33

  And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your acts of prostitution until the last of your corpses lies in the wilderness.

• Numbers 14:35

  I, YHWH, have spoken; surely this I will do to all this evil community that has gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to an end, and there they shall die.”

• Numbers 17:13

  Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the dwelling of YHWH, will die. Are we to come to an end and expire?”

• Numbers 32:13

  YHWH’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the eyes of YHWH was finished.

• Deuteronomy 2:14

  The days that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered were thirty-eight years, until the whole generation, the men of war, had come to an end from the midst of the camp, as YHWH had sworn to them.

• Deuteronomy 2:15

  Also the hand of YHWH was against them to throw them into confusion from the midst of the camp, until they were finished.

• Deuteronomy 2:16

  When all the men of war had finished dying from among the people,

• Deuteronomy 31:24

  And it happened, when Moses had finished writing the words of this instruction in a book to the end,

• Deuteronomy 31:30

  And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song to the end:

• Deuteronomy 34:8

  And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping in mourning for Moses were completed.

• Joshua 3:16

  the waters coming down from above stopped; they rose up in one heap, very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, came to an end, were cut off. And the people crossed opposite Jericho.

• Joshua 3:17

  The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of YHWH stood firm on dry land in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel was crossing on dry land, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

• Joshua 4:1

  And it came about, when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, that YHWH said to Joshua,

• Joshua 4:10

  The priests carrying the ark were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that YHWH had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and crossed.

• Joshua 4:11

  And it came about, when all the people had finished crossing, that the ark of YHWH and the priests crossed before the people.

• Joshua 5:6

  For forty years the sons of Israel walked in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, had come to an end, who did not listen to the voice of YHWH; to whom YHWH swore that he would not let them see the land that YHWH had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Joshua 5:8

  And it came about, when all the nation had finished being circumcised, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they recovered.

• Joshua 8:24

  And it came about, when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they had pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were finished, that all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

• Joshua 10:20

  And it came about, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great blow, until they were finished, and the survivors who survived of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• 1 Samuel 16:11

  Samuel said to Jesse, “Are the young men all here?” He said, “There remains still the youngest, and look, he is pasturing the flock.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit around until he comes here.”

• 2 Samuel 15:24

  And there was Zadok too, and all the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of Elohim; and they set down the ark of Elohim, and Abiathar went up, until all the people had finished crossing over from the city.

• 2 Samuel 20:18

  She said, “Long ago they used to say, saying, ‘Let them be sure to ask at Abel’; and so they settled matters.

• 2 Samuel 22:26

  With the faithful you show yourself faithful; with the blameless mighty man you show yourself blameless;

• 1 Kings 6:22

  And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished; and the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

• 1 Kings 7:22

  And on the head of the pillars was lily work. And the work of the pillars was finished.

• 1 Kings 14:10

  therefore, look, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, restrained and left in Israel; and I will sweep away after the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung, until it is gone.

• 2 Kings 7:13

  One of his servants answered and said, “Let men take, please, five of the remaining horses, which are left in it; look, they are like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; look, they are like all the multitude of Israel that have perished; and let us send and see.”

• 2 Kings 22:4

  “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and let him count the silver that has been brought into the house of YHWH, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered from the people;

• Job 22:3

  Does Shaddai have an interest in your being righteous, or is it gain that you make blameless your ways?

• Job 31:40

  instead of wheat let thorns come up, and instead of barley, stinkweed.” The words of Job are ended.

• Psalms 9:6

  The enemy has come to an end: ruins forever; cities you have uprooted; has perished their memory, theirs.

• Psalms 18:25

  With the faithful you show yourself faithful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

• Psalms 19:13

  Also from the insolent hold back your servant; let them not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

• Psalms 64:6

  They search out injustices: “We have completed a thoroughly searched-out plan.” And the inward part of each one and the heart are deep.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they have become a desolation in a moment! They have come to an end, they have been consumed by horrors.

• Psalms 102:27

  But you are the same, and your years will not come to an end.

• Psalms 104:35

  Let sinners vanish from the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless YHWH, my soul. Praise Yah.

And 23 more times.