תּוֹאָם
twin
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 2 times (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8380 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 2 verses
Song of Solomon 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
תאום (tâʼôwm) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “twin.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 25:24. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8380 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 2 verses 50%
- Song of Solomon 2 verses 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are twins 2×
- American Standard Version: Are twins 1×, Are twins of a roe 1×, Behold 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Twins 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Twins 2×, Twins of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8380 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8380 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8380 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8380 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- twin
Word origin
Derived from תאם (tâʼam) (H8382) — to be double.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תְּאוֹם
- twin. —Pl. תְּאוֹמִים. Cant. R. to V, 2 (play on תמתי, ib.) תְּאוֹמָתִי מה הת׳ הללו וכ׳ my twin sister, as in the case of twins, when one has a headache, the other feels it, so, as it were, does the Lord say, ‘with him (Israel) am I in distress’ (Ps. XCI, 15). Gen. R. s. 85; a. e.—Esp. Gemini, a constellation of the Zodiac. Pesik. R. s. 20 מזל ת׳ אדם (read: מזל אדם ת׳) man’s planet is Gemini. Tanḥ. Haăz. 1 [read:] וכשגדל נעשה כת׳ כלומר שלם וכ׳ when man grows up, he becomes like the planet Gemini, that is to say, perfect &c.—Fem. תְּאוֹמָה. Cant. R. l. c., v. supra. Ib. תאומתי כביכול, v. תְּיוֹמֶת. Gen. R. s. 22 קין ותְאוֹמָתוֹ Cain and his twin sister. Ib. ת׳ יתירה נולדה וכ׳ an additional twin sister was born with Abel; a. e.—Pl. תְּאוֹמוֹת. Ib. הבל ושתי תְאוֹמוֹתָיו Abel and his two sisters born with him.—Trnsf. תְּאוֹמוֹת (from their shape) molar teeth. Bekh. VI, 4 (39ᵃ) Ar. (Mish. ed. מַתְאִימוֹת; Bab. ed. תיומת). e.g. Psalms 91:15
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H8380 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תְאוֹמִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 38:27 | 1 |
| תְּאוֹמֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Song of Solomon 4:5 | 1 |
| תָּאֳמֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Song of Solomon 7:3 | 1 |
| תוֹמִ֖ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 25:24 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
