Strong’s H8552 · Hebrew

תָּמַם
tâmam
taw-mam'

Definition

to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • 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
  • be all here
  • be (make) perfect
  • be spent
  • sum
  • be (shew self) upright
  • be wasted
  • whole

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.