תַּמָּה
there
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where H8536 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Ezra 4 verses
- Ezra 5:17 תַמָּה֮ adv Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
- Ezra 6:1 תַּמָּ֖ה adv Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
- Ezra 6:6 תַּמָּֽה adv Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be you far from there:
- Ezra 6:12 תַּמָּ֗ה adv and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter [the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.
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.
The Hebrew verb תם centers on the idea of “there.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Ezra (100%). First canonically at Ezra 5:17, it enters the text early. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8536 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.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 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
- Ezra 4 verses 100%
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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
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: Is there 1×, Thence 1×, There 1×
- American Standard Version: Is there 1×, Thence 1×, There 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Place 1×, There 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: There 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8536 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8536 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8536 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8536 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.
- there
Word origin
Derived from שם (shâm) (H8033) — there.
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.
תָּם I
- 1. perfect, unblemished. Tem. 7ᵇ (opp. בעל מום); B. Kam. 12ᵇ; (Maas. Sh. I, 2 תָּמִים); a. fr.—Fem. תַּמָּה. Sabb. 103ᵇ, v. כְּתִיבָה. Succ. 37ᵃ, v. לְקִיחָה. Tanḥ. Emor 18 (ref. to ול̇ק̇ח̇ת̇ם̇, Lev. XXIII, 40) בל̇ק̇יח̇ה ת̇מ̇ה וכ׳ by a real (honest) purchase: thou darest not steal (a Lulab), and stand with it (before God) &c.; a. e. e.g. Leviticus 23:40
- 2. simple, innocent, artless. Mekh. Bo, s. 18 ארבעה … ואחד תם וכ׳ there are four characters in children (as regards their attitude towards religious ceremonies): one is wise, and one is simple &c.; (Yalk. Ex. 225 טיפש); a. e.
- 3. (law) an innocuous animal, one that did injury for the first time, or before warning had been given, opp. מוּעָד (v. Ex. XXI, 28-36). B. Kam. I, 4 התם משלם וכ׳ the tam pays half-damage from the sale of its own body. Ib. II, 4 איזה הוא תם … משיחזור וכ׳ when is an animal called tam?… When it shows its regret for three days, i.e. when it has done an injury and does not repeat it for three days afterwards; ib. (another opin.) ותם כל שיהו וכ׳ tam is one which does not gore when children touch it; a. v. fr.—Pl. תַּמִּים, תַּמִּין. Ib. I, 4 חמשה ת׳ וכ׳ there are five classes of tammin, i.e. an animal is considered a tam with regard to five classes of damages (so as to require legal warning): with regard to goring, striking &c.; a. e. e.g. Exodus 21:28
תָּם II
- = h. שָׁם, there, esp. (in Talmud Babli) in Palestine. Ḥull. 59ᵇ (in Hebr. dict.) שלחו מִתָּם וכ׳ they sent word from Palestine: the practice is in agreement with &c. Bets. 4ᵇ; a. fr.—V. הָתָם, תַּמָּן.
תֹּם
- , v. תֹּום
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 H8536 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַמָּה֮ | Adverb | Ezra 5:17 | 1 |
| תַּמָּ֖ה | Adverb | Ezra 6:1 | 1 |
| תַּמָּ֗ה | Adverb | Ezra 6:12 | 1 |
| תַּמָּֽה | Adverb | Ezra 6:6 | 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.
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