Word

תֹּם

tôm · H8537 · Hebrew · 23 occurrences

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Meanings

integrity, blamelessness

Literally: completeness; hence: state in which humans are considered morally blameless, with profound moral uprightness and integrity

Examples
1 Kings 9:4 “As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and honesty, acting in accordance with everything that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My ordinances,
Proverbs 2:7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 10:9 One who walks in integrity walks securely, But one who perverts his ways will be found out.
in full measure

Literally: with completeness; hence: state in which an event happens without holding back

Examples
Job 21:23 “One dies in his full strength, Being wholly undisturbed and at ease;
Isaiah 47:9 “But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.
integrity

Literally: completeness; hence: state in which humans have no intentions to hurt or harm others

Examples
Genesis 20:5 “Did he himself not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
Genesis 20:6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
2 Samuel 15:11 Then two hundred men went with Absalom from Jerusalem, who were invited and went innocently, for they did not know anything.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

19 occurrences in 5 groups

הוּhis 6
לֵבָבheart, mind 5
יmy 4
דֶּרֶךְway, road 2
הֶםtheir 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָצַרto keep, to guard, to preserve 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָצַרto keep, to guard, to preserve 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 2 groups

הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

18 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 20
לto/for 6
כlike/as 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
עֶצֶםbone 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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Near synonyms 3 words

יֹשֶׁר yôsher · H3476 · uprightness, honesty, sincereness: Both words denote moral rectitude and integrity: יֹשֶׁר (yôsher, H3476) emphasizes rightness and equity, while תֹּם (tôm, H8537) emphasizes integrity and completeness.
נִקָּיוֹן niqqâyôwn · H5356 · famine, hunger, innocence: נִקָּיוֹן (niqqâyôwn, H5356) denotes cleanness or innocence, a state of being free from guilt, while תֹּם (tôm, H8537) denotes integrity, completeness and uprightness, moral wholeness. They overlap in moral purity and could substitute in contexts of moral blamelessness.
יִשְׁרָה yishrâh · H3483 · uprightness, honesty, sincereness: Both words denote abstract qualities of moral character (uprightness, integrity, perfection) in the area of ethical soundness.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Innocent002003003015: This noun denotes moral integrity, as in Genesis 20:5's plea that Abimelech acted in the integrity of his heart and the innocence of his hands.
Intense002001003011: This domain reflects a further idiomatic sense of acting at random or without deliberation, found elsewhere in this word's range of occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.
Just002001002016: The noun also denotes righteous conduct before God, as in 1 Kings 9:4's charge that Solomon walk in integrity of heart and honesty, keeping the LORD's statutes and ordinances.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

תָּמַם tâmam · H8552 · to be finished, to be spent, to be completed · 64×תָּמִים tâmîym · H8549 · whole, complete, full · 91×תֹּםtôm · H8537תָּם tâm · H8535 · joined, perfect · 15×תֻּמָּה tummâh · H8538 · integrity, blamelessness · 5×מְתֹם mᵉthôm · H4974 · sound spot · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8537. tom תֹּם noun [masculine] completeness, integrity ; — תֹּם absolute Pro 10:20 +;…

H8537. tom
תֹּם noun [masculine] completeness, integrity ; — תֹּם absolute Pro 10:20 +; construct Job 4:6; Psa 78:72, construct also תָּםֿ Pro 13:6 Pro 13:4t.; suffix תֻּמִּי Psa 26:1 Psa 26:11t. suffix; plural תֻּמִּים Exo 28:30 Exo 28:3t.; suffix תֻּמֶּיךָ Deu 33:8 ; —
1 completeness, fullness : כְּתֻמָּם Isa 47:9 according to their full measure; תֻּמּוֺ בְּעֶצֶם Job 21:23 in his very completeness.
2 innocence, simplicity: לתמם הלכים 2Sa 15:11; לְתֻמּוֺ בַּקֶּשֶׁת מֶשַׁךְ 1Ki 22:34 2Ch 18:33, i.e. without definite aim.
3 integrity: לֵבָב תֹּם integrity of mind Gen 20:5-6, (E), 1Ki 9:4; Psa 78:72; Psa 101:2; תָּםדֶּֿרֶךְ Pro 13:6; Job 4:6; בַּתֹּם (הת)הלך Pro 10:9, בְּתֻמּוֺ Pro 19:1; Pro 20:7; Pro 28:6, בְּתֻמִּי Psa 26:1; Psa 26:11; תֹם הֹלְכֵי Pro 2:7; וָישֶׁר תֹּם Psa 25:21; בְּתֻמִּי Psa 41:13; כְּתֻמִּי Psa 7:9; לַתֹּם מָעוֺז Pro 10:29.
4 תֻּמִּים in וְתֻמִּים אוּרִים (meaning dubious, see, אורים) Deu 33:8; Exo 28:30 (P) Lev 8:8 (P), Ezr 2:63 = Neh 7:65; + 1Sa 14:41 (for תָּמִים) We Dr Bu HPS; also Hos 3:4 (for תרפים CheJQ. July 1899, 564 and Hos 4:5 (תֻּמֶּ֑יךָ for אִמֶּ֑ךָ) RubenJQ. April 1899, 44 Chel.c.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Just5 occurrences Intense2 occurrences Innocent16 occurrences

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