Lexicon
מְתֹם
me.tom
H4974
H:N-M Hebrew

soundness

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Hebrew
Language

me.tom denotes an unimpaired condition, explicitly denied where the body is covered with wounds.

The attested evidence centers on an unimpaired condition: Isaiah 1:6 explicitly denies it from foot to head while describing wounds, bruises, and fresh injuries. The same singular absolute noun also occurs in verses concerning destruction, overwhelming iniquities, and extreme feebleness, but the translation does not isolate its contribution there sufficiently to establish additional uses.

Senses in use

  1. An unimpaired condition · dominant

    In Isaiah 1:6, the singular absolute noun occurs in the clause denying an unimpaired condition from the sole of the foot to the head; the APB renders the clause, “there is no soundness in it,” before listing wound, bruise, and fresh wound. In Judges 20:48, Psalm 38:4, and Psalm 38:8, the same morphology occurs, but the APB presents the verses' destruction, heavy iniquities, and crushing feebleness without isolating this noun's particular contribution.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the clause in Isaiah 1:6 with “no soundness.” In Judges 20:48, Psalm 38:4, and Psalm 38:8, its loose verse-level phrasing does not provide a clear one-to-one rendering of the noun.

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