tom · integrity

What it means

tom (תֹּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “integrity”.

Acting without falseness, with a clean intention; innocence.

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. Living uprightly, with pure intent.
2. Something whole, entire.
3. To act without malice or any particular intention.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• integrity ×18
• fullness ×2
• simplicity ×2
• complete ×1
• one blameless ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×7
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 20:5

  Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, she too said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

• Genesis 20:6

  Then Elohim said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this; and I also kept back you from sinning against me; that is why I did not let you touch her.

• Leviticus 25:29

  And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, his redemption shall last until a year from his sale is complete; for a full year shall his redemption last.

• 2 Samuel 15:11

  With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem, invited; they went in their integrity and did not know anything.

• 1 Kings 9:4

  And you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keep my statutes and my rules,

• 1 Kings 22:34

  But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to his chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

• 2 Chronicles 18:33

  But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to the chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

• Job 4:6

  Is not your fear your confidence, your hope the integrity of your ways?

• Job 21:23

  One dies in his very fullness, wholly at ease and tranquil;

• Psalms 7:8

  YHWH judges the peoples. Judge me, YHWH, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity that is in me.

• Psalms 25:21

  May integrity and uprightness guard me, for I have waited for you.

• Psalms 26:1

  Of David. Judge me, YHWH, for I in my integrity have walked, and in YHWH I have trusted; I will not slip.

• Psalms 26:11

  But I in my integrity will walk; ransom me and show me favor.

• Psalms 41:12

  And as for me, in my integrity you have upheld me and set me before you forever.

• Psalms 78:72

  And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and with the understanding of his palms he led them.

• Psalms 101:2

  I will give heed to the way of blamelessness; when will you come to me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart within my house.

• Proverbs 2:7

  He stores up sound judgment for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

• Proverbs 10:9

  He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes crooked his ways will be found out.

• Proverbs 10:29

  A stronghold for integrity is the way of YHWH, but ruin for those who do wickedness.

• Proverbs 13:6

  Righteousness guards the one blameless in his way, but wickedness perverts the sinner.

• Proverbs 19:1

  Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one crooked in his lips, who is senseless.

• Proverbs 20:7

  One who walks in his integrity is righteous; happy are his sons after him.

• Proverbs 28:6

  Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one crooked in two ways, even though he is rich.

• Isaiah 47:9

  And these two things will come to you in a moment, in one day: loss of children and widowhood; in their fullness they will come upon you, in spite of the great number of your sorceries, in spite of the great power of your spells.