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.