תָּמַם tâmam — to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Translated in the KJV as accomplish, cease, be clean ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, × be all here.
a primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive.
tâmam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 19Infinitive construct 19Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Wayyiqtol 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›