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title: תָּם — complete · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תָּם (8535), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: complete. BDB 1906: adj. complete. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תָּם

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«תָּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **complete** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 15 times · **Key:** 8535 · **BDB:** תָּם

### Glosses

\[the\].blameless (3); blameless (3); \[am\].blameless (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

complete [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8535/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. complete [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8535/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. complete;—ת׳ Gn 25:27 + 10 times; sf. תַּמָּתִי Ct 5:2; 6:9 (late, except Gn 25:27);— complete, perfect: in beauty Ct 5:2; 6:9; of physical strength ψ 73:4 (read לָ֑מוֹ תָּם Ew De DrSam xxxi Che Bae al.). sound, wholesome: אִישׁ תָּם, of Jacob as tent-dweller, opp. Esau, hunter, Gn 25:27 (J; De leutseliger Mann, Di ruhig, still, AV RV plain man; ת׳ here poss. redactional, = 3). complete, morally innocent, having integrity: אִישׁ תָּם Jb 1:8; 2:3; ת׳ alone 1:1; 8:20; 9:20, 21, 22 Pr 29:10 ψ 37:37; 64:5.—תַּמִּים Ex 26:24; 36:29 v. \[תָּאם\].

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תָּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8535/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 9:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.21/)

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תָּֽם־אָ֭נִי לֹֽא־אֵדַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֗י אֶמְאַ֥ס חַיָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[am\].blameless I not I.know self my I.reject life my

*JPS 1917:* I am innocent — I regard not myself, I despise my life.

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[Proverbs 29:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.10/)

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אַנְשֵׁ֣י דָ֭מִים יִשְׂנְאוּ־תָ֑ם וִֽ֝ישָׁרִ֗ים יְבַקְשׁ֥וּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* people of.blood(s) they.hate a.blameless.\[person\] and upright.\[people\] they.seek life his

*JPS 1917:* The men of blood hate him that is sincere; and as for the upright, they seek his life.

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