tam · complete; quiet, upright

What it means

tam (תָּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “complete; quiet, upright”.

Complete, upright, wholehearted; also quiet, simple, gentle.

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. Upright, without deceit.
2. Someone without defect, who has no blemish.
3. Whole, with nothing lacking.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• blameless ×10
• perfect one ×2
• complete ×1
• integrity ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Job×7
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×2

• Genesis 25:27

  The boys grew up, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field, while Jacob was a man of integrity, living in tents.

• Exodus 26:24

  They shall be doubled from below, and together they shall be complete at its top, at the first ring; so it shall be for both of them; they shall form the two corners.

• Job 1:1

  There was a man in the land of Uz; Job was his name. That man was blameless and upright, fearing Elohim and turning away from evil.

• Job 1:8

  YHWH said to the Satan, “Have you set your heart on my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing Elohim and turning away from evil.”

• Job 2:3

  YHWH said to the Satan, “Have you set your heart on my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing Elohim and turning away from evil; and he still holds fast to his integrity, though you incited me against him to swallow him up for nothing.”

• Job 8:20

  Look, El does not despise the blameless, nor does he take hold of the hand of evildoers.

• Job 9:20

  Though I were righteous, my own mouth would declare me wicked; blameless I am, and he would declare me crooked.

• Job 9:21

  Blameless I am; I do not know myself; I despise my life.

• Job 9:22

  It is one thing; therefore I say, ‘The blameless and the wicked he consumes.’

• Psalms 37:37

  Mark the blameless and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

• Psalms 64:4

  to shoot from hiding places at the blameless; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

• Proverbs 29:10

  Men of blood hate the blameless, but the upright seek his soul.

• Song of Songs 5:2

  I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew, my curls with the drops of the night.”

• Song of Songs 6:9

  Unique is she, my dove, my perfect one, unique is she to her mother, pure is she to the one who bore her. The girls saw her and called her happy, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.