Quick Definition
to finish
Strong's Definition
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, [idiom] be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
TWOT Reference: 2522
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
תָּמַם (ta.mam) — to finish. 1) to be complete, be finished, be at an end 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be finished, be completed 1a1a) completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb) 1a2) to be finished, come to an end, cease 1a3) to be complete (of number) 1a4) to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent 1a5) to be finished, be consumed, be destroyed 1a6) to be complete, be sound, be unimpaired, be upright (ethically) 1a7) to complete, finish 1a8) to be completely crossed over 1b) (Niphal) to be consumed 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to finish, complete, perfect 1c2) to finish, cease doing, leave off doing 1c3) to complete, sum up, make whole 1c4) to destroy (uncleanness) 1c5) to make sound 1d) (Hithpael) to deal in integrity, act uprightly
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · תָּם · תֹּם · תֻּמָּה · תָּמִים · תֻּמִּים · יֹותָם
Complete | verb qal
to be finished, to be spent, to be completed, to be over, to come to an end, to stop = process by which events reach the stage of completion
GEN 47:18 · LEV 25:29 · LEV 26:20 · DEU 31:24 · DEU 31:30 · DEU 34:8 · JOS 4:10 · 1KI 6:22 · 1KI 7:22 · JOB 31:40 · PSA 102:28 · ISA 18:5 · JER 1:3 · LAM 3:22 · LAM 4:22 · EZK 47:12
Complete | verb hif
to finish, to complete, to stop, to remove = causative action by which humans or deities cause an event to reach the stage of completion
2SA 20:18 · PSA 64:7 · ISA 33:1 · EZK 22:15 · EZK 24:10 · DAN 8:23 · DAN 9:24
Non-Exist | verb qal
to be consumed, to be gone, to be finished literally: to be completed; hence: = state in which inanimate objects are no longer in existence
Non-Exist | verb qal
to be finished, to be spent literally: to be completed; hence: = state in which humans and money are no longer available for a particular purpose
Dead | verb qal | ≈ אַיִן · מות · נפל · סוף
to die, to perish literally: to be finished; hence: = process by which groups cease existing as living human beings, ≈ which is usually associated with punishment from God
NUM 14:35 · NUM 32:13 · DEU 2:14 · DEU 2:15 · DEU 2:16 · JOS 5:6 · JOS 8:24 · JOS 10:20 · 2KI 7:13 · PSA 9:7 · PSA 73:19 · PSA 104:35 · ISA 16:4 · JER 14:15 · JER 24:10 · JER 44:12 · JER 44:12 · JER 44:18 · JER 44:27
Dead | verb qal
to cause to die, to cause to perish literally: to finish; hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans to cease existing as living human beings
Innocent | verb hif | ≈ צדק
Collocation: תמם דֶּרֶךְ
to act with integrity literally: to make (one's) ways complete; hence: = action by which humans act in a way that is morally blameless, with profound moral uprightness and integrity
Innocent | verb qal | ≈ נקה
to be blameless literally: to be complete; hence: = state in which humans are not held responsible for actions committed in the past
Innocent | verb hit
to act with integrity literally: to act with completeness; hence: = action by which deities act in a way that is morally blameless, with profound moral uprightness and integrity
Quantity | verb qal
all = process by which an event is performed or undergone by all participants
NUM 14:33 · NUM 17:28 · JOS 3:16 · JOS 3:17 · JOS 4:1 · JOS 4:11 · JOS 5:8 · 2SA 15:24
Quantity | verb hif
all = causative action by which humans cause an event to be undergone by all participants
1 1KI 6:22 Note that the event here has not been specified explicitly but is implied by the context. 2 PSA 64:7 MT ESV | RSV NRSV "thought out" NIV "devised" GNT "planned" | NJPS REB "conceal(ed)" 3 DAN 9:24 MT-K ולחתם | MT-Q וּלְהָתֵם 4 JER 6:29 MT-K מאשׁתם | MT-Q מֵאֵשׁ תַּם 5 JOS 3:16 This is the only case where תמם is not followed by ל + inf.cs. but with a pf. instead 6 2KI 22:4 It appears that the main event (supposedly לקח or a verb with a similar meaning) is missing in this verse.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[תָּמַם], תַּם vb. be complete, finished Qal be finished, completed
be finished, come to an end, cease
be complete, of number
be consumed, exhausted, spent
be finished, consumed, destroyed
be complete, sound, unimpaired
twice, very strangely
Hiph. finish, complete, perfect, a matter
finish, cease doing a thing
complete, sum up
destroy uncleanness
causative: make sound thy ways.
Hithp. deal in integrity with
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