מְתֹם
mᵉthôm · H4974 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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sound spot
Part of the body that is healthy and unaffected by a sickness or other affliction
ExamplesPsalm 38:3 There is no healthy part in my flesh because of Your indignation; There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 38:7 For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part in my flesh.
Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing healthy in it, Only bruises, slashes, and raw wounds; Not pressed out nor bandaged, Nor softened with oil.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- ὁλοκληρία holoklēría · G3647 · complete health, perfect health
- Greek noun denoting soundness, wholeness, or completeness, particularly of bodily health/integrity—directly parallel to Hebrew מְתֹם in the semantic domain of physical/moral soundness.
- ὑγιής hygiḗs · G5199 · to be well, to be healthy, right
- Greek adjective meaning sound or healthy, used of physical and metaphorical wholeness—captures the 'soundness' sense of מְתֹם as a state of being complete/intact.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- מְתֹם denotes soundness or physical wholeness, most often used negatively of its absence, as in Isaiah 1:6's description of the nation having no soundness from foot to head, only wounds and bruises, tying the word to bodily strength or intactness.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4974. methom מְתֹם noun [masculine] soundness; in phrase ב מְתֹם ׳אֵין Isa 1:6; Psa…
מְתֹם noun [masculine] soundness; in phrase ב מְתֹם ׳אֵין Isa 1:6; Psa 38:4; Psa 38:8; מְ֯תֹם מֵעִיר Jdg 20:48 from entire city (Manuscripts De Rossi Bu GFM מְתִם, see מַת and compare מת(י)ם עיר Deu 2:34; Deu 3:6; Job 24:12).
תֵּמָנִי תֵּמָן, see תֵּימָן below ימן.
תִּמְנַת תִּמְנִי, תִּמְנָ֫תָה, תִּמְנָה, see מנה.
תִּמְנָע see מָנַע. תֶּ֫מֶס see מסס.
תמר (√of following; compare perhaps Arabic be erect, stiff (e.g. of lance), so Buhl13, who derives thence תמר palm-tree, and also תִּימָרָה, Late Hebrew תִּמָּרָה column of smoke, Late Hebrew תִּמּוּר rising motion, etc., but these denominative from תָּמָר LevyNHWB Buhl14; compare Arabic date, Ethiopic id., date-palm, Aramaic תַּמְרָא, date-palm, Late Hebrew תָּמָר date (-palm))).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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