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Genesis 47:15

“And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

תָּמַםtâmam · taw-mam'
H8552 · Hebrew

Definition: to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, [idiom] be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יִּתֹּ֣ם — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage: Occurs 63 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 47:18 Genesis 47:18 Leviticus 26:20 Numbers 14:33 Numbers 14:35

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read תָּמַם here.

Verse 14 Verse 16

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.