תָּמִיד
continually
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8548 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 3 distinct verses. 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.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 9:7 תָּמִֽיד n c ms David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually."
- 2 Samuel 9:10 תָּמִ֛יד n c ms You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your servants; and you shall bring in [the fruits], that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
- 2 Samuel 9:13 תָּמִ֖יד n c ms So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.
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 noun תמיד centers on the idea of “continually.” The King James Version usually renders it “continually,” while modern versions prefer “regular” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 103 verses in 21 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Exodus 25:30, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Dig into 103-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8548 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 →
- 103
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 103 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #410
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 410 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 103 occurrences in the concordance →
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 103 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 42 verses · 41%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 35 verses · 34%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 26 verses · 25%
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: Continually 42×, Beside the continual 12×, Continual 7×
- American Standard Version: Continually 42×, Besides the continual 12×, Continual 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Regular 19×, Continually 13×, Always 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Continually 57×, Continuity 18×, Continual 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8548 across 104 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 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 H8548 across 104 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8548 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 28 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8548 across 103 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. earliest and oftenest as adv., continually:
- a. of going on without interruption = continuously, Ho 12:7 Je 6:7 Na 3:19 Is 21:8; 49:16; 51:13 (+ כָּל־הַיּוֹם), 52:5 (+ id.), 58:11; 60:11 (‖ יוֹמָם וָלַיְלָה), 62:6 (+ כָּל־הַיּוֹם וְכָל־הַלַּיְלָה), 65:3 Ob 16 Hb 1:17 Dt 11:12 1 K 10:8 = 2 Ch 9:7, 1 Ch 16:11, 37; especially (sometimes hyperbol.) in ψψ: ψ 16:8; 25:15; 34:2 (‖ בְּכָל־עֵת), 35:27 cf. 40:17; 70:5, 38:18; 40:12; 50:8; 51:5; 69:24; 71:6, 14; 72:15; 73:23; 74:23; 105:4; 109:15, 19; 119:44 (+ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶֽך׃), v 109, 117 (so also ψ 16:5, for MT תומיך, Bi Che; תּוֹסיף Ol Bae); Pr 5:19 (‖ בְּכָל־עֵת), 6:21; 15:15; 28:14; also Ez 38:8 (del. 𝔖 Co ToyHpt. Berthol), Lv 6:6 (P; of fire, ‖ לֹא תִכְבֶּה), Ez 46:14 (but חֻקַּת תּ׳ 𝔊 Co Berthol); also in ritual, Lv 24:8 (H), cf. Ex 25:30 (P; shew-bread), Lv 24:2, 3, 4 (H), cf. Ex 27:20 (P; of lamp), Ex 28:29, 30, 38. e.g. Hosea 12:7
- b. of regular repetition: meals 2 S 9:7, 10, 13; 2 K 25:29 = Je 52:33; journeys 2 K 4:9; cf. Nu 9:16; ψ 71:3; of ritual: sacrifice, לַיּוֹם תָּמִיד Ex 29:38; cf. 1 Ch 16:40; 23:31; 2 Ch 24:14. e.g. 2 Samuel 9:7
- 2. as subst.:
- a. of uninterrupted continuity, אַנְשֵׁי ת׳ Ez 39:14 men of continuity, i.e. men continually employed for the purpose; לֶחֶם הַתּ׳ Nu 4:7 the bread of continuity, i.e. the bread that is always there, so מַעֲרֶכֶת ת׳ 2 Ch 2:3, and perhaps חֲצֹצְרוֹת ת׳ 1 Ch 16:6. e.g. Ezekiel 39:14
- b. of regular repetition אֲרֻחַת מ׳ 2 K 25:30, i.e. a regular allowance, = Je 52:34; especially of ritual: קְטֹרֶת ת׳ Ex 30:8 (P); most often עֹלַת ת׳ Ez 46:15 (every morning), Ex 29:42 (morning and evening, so) Nu 28:6 Ezr 3:5, so read also Nu 28:3 (Di) for MT עוֹלָה ת׳ (לַיּוֹם); עֹלַת הַתּ׳ Nu 28:10, 15, 23, 24, 31; 29:6, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 38 Ne 10:34; rarely מִנְחַת ת׳ Nu 4:16 (P), Ne 10:34; as appos., מִנְחָה ת׳ Lv 6:13 meal-offering as a regular observance (cf. Ges§ 131, 2 (b) DaSynt. § 29 (b); on text v. Di, NowArch. ii. 124f.), (and Nu 28:3 MT, but v. supr.) e.g. 2 Kings 25:30
- c. (late) הַתּ׳ alone = daily (morning and evening) burnt-offering (NowArch. ii. 222f.) Dn 8:11, 12, 13; 11:31; 12:11 (so Talm., even in pl. תְּמִידִין). e.g. Daniel 8:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Dn 12:11 continuity (perhaps orig. extent; NH as BH, Ecclus תמיד 45:14);—ת׳ always abs.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to stretch
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.
תָּמִיד
- constant, daily practice; esp. (sub. קרבן) the daily burnt-offering (Num. XXVIII, 3). Pes. V, 1 ת׳ נשחט וכ׳ the afternoon tamid is (ordinarily) slaughtered at eight and a half hours of the day. Taan. IV, 6 בשבעה … ובטל הת׳ on the seventeenth of Tammuz … the daily offerings ceased (when Jerusalem was besieged); a. v. fr.—Pl. תְּמִידִים, תְּמִידִין. Ber. 10ᵇ (ref. to II Kings IV, 9 תמיד) המארח … הקריב ת׳ if one entertains a scholar in his house, the Scripture accounts it to him as if he offered daily sacrifices. Y. Pes. VI, beg. 33ᵃ מאן דאמר מאה ת׳ וכ׳ he who says, a hundred regular sacrifices supersede the Sabbath during one year, refers to the daily burnt-offerings; he who says two hundred, refers to the daily burnt-offerings and the Musaf sacrifices of the Sabbaths &c.; a. fr.—Tamid, name of a treatise, of the Order of Ḳodashim, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Babli. e.g. Numbers 28:3
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 32 distinct written forms H8548 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תָּמִֽיד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 25:30 | 16 |
| הַ/תָּמִ֔יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:11 | 12 |
| תָמִֽיד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 28:3 | 9 |
| תָּמִ֑יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 38:8 | 9 |
| תָּמִ֖יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 16:37 | 7 |
| תָּמִ֔יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:38 | 5 |
| תָּמִ֛יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 30:8 | 5 |
| הַ/תָּמִ֖יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:12 | 4 |
| תָמִ֑יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 6:21 | 4 |
| הַ/תָּמִ֛יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 28:15 | 3 |
| תָ֭מִיד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 35:27 | 3 |
| תָּמִ֥יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 40:11 | 3 |
| תָּמִיד֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:42 | 3 |
| הַ/תָּמִיד֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:13 | 2 |
| תָּמִ֗יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 11:12 | 2 |
| הַ/תָּמִ֑יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 28:23 | 1 |
| הַ/תָּמִ֣יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 10:33 | 1 |
| הַ֠/תָּמִיד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 10:33 | 1 |
| וְ/תָמִ֛יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Habakkuk 1:17 | 1 |
| וְ/תָמִ֥יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 52:5 | 1 |
| תָמִ֔יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 9:16 | 1 |
| תָמִ֗יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 119:44 | 1 |
| תָמִ֣יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 73:23 | 1 |
| תָמִ֤יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 39:14 | 1 |
| תָּ֝מִ֗יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 34:1 | 1 |
| תָּ֭מִיד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 25:15 | 1 |
| תָּמִ֜יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 51:13 | 1 |
| תָּמִ֣יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 71:14 | 1 |
| תָּמִ֤יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 2:4 | 1 |
| תָּמִ֧יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 25:30 | 1 |
| תָּמִ֨יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 52:34 | 1 |
| תָּמִיד֒ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 58:11 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 91 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 103 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
- Exodus 25:30
- Leviticus 6:13
- Numbers 4:7
- Deuteronomy 11:12
- 2 Samuel 9:7
- 1 Kings 10:8
- 2 Kings 4:9
- 1 Chronicles 16:6
- 2 Chronicles 2:4
- Ezra 3:5
- Psalms 16:8
- Proverbs 5:19
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.
