תֹּם tôm — completeness

pronounced tome · Strong's H8537 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as full, integrity, perfect, simplicity, upright(-ly, -ness), at a venture. See H8550.

from H8552; completeness; figuratively, prosperity; usually (morally) innocence.

tôm in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Infinitive construct 1

תֹּ֖ם Lev 25:29 Infinitive construct

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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