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<p> '''A. Adjectives. ''' </p> <p> <em> Tâmı̂ym </em> ( '''''תָּמִים''''' , Strong'S #8549), “perfect; blameless; sincerity; entire; whole; complete; full.” The 91 occurrences of this word are scattered throughout biblical literature with 51 of them in passages dealing with cultic offerings. </p> <p> <em> Tâmı̂ym </em> means “complete,” in the sense of the entire or whole thing: “And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone …” (Lev. 3:9). The sun stood still for the “whole” day while Joshua fought the [[Gibeonites]] (Josh. 10:13). In Lev. 23:15 God commands that there be seven “complete” sabbaths after the first fruit feast plus fifty days and then that the new grain offering be presented. A house within a walled city must be purchased back within a “full” year if it is to remain the permanent property of the seller (Lev. 25:30). </p> <p> This word may mean “intact,” or not cut up into pieces: “Behold, when it was whole, it [a piece of wood] was meet for no work …” (Ezek. 15:5). </p> <p> <em> Tâmı̂ym </em> may mean incontestable or free from objection. In Deut. 32:4 the word modifies God’s work: “His work is perfect.” The people of God are to avoid the idolatrous practices of the Canaanites. They are to “be perfect with the Lord thy God” (Deut. 18:13). Used in such contexts the word means the one so described externally meets all the requirements of God’s law (cf. Ps. 18:23). This word modifies the victim to be offered to <em> God </em> (51), times). It means that the victim has no blemish (Lev. 22:18-21) as “blemish” is defined by God: “Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats” (Lev. 22:19). </p> <p> In several contexts the word has a wider background. When one is described by it, there is nothing in his outward activities or internal disposition that is odious to God; “… Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God” (Gen. 6:9). This word describes his entire relationship to God. In Judg. 9:16, where <em> tâmı̂ym </em> describes a relationship between men it is clear that more than mere external activity is meant: “Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely [literally, “in a sincere manner”], in that ye have made [[Abimelech]] king.…” This extended connotation of this nuance is also evidenced when one compares Gen. 17:1 with Rom. 4 where Paul argues that [[Abraham]] fulfilled God’s condition but that he did so only through faith. </p> <p> Another adjective, <em> tam </em> , appears 15 times. With a cognate in Ugaritic the word means “complete or perfect” (Song of Sol. 5:2, RSV), “sound or wholesome” (Gen. 25:27), and “complete, morally innocent, having integrity” (Job 1:8). </p> <p> '''B. Noun. ''' </p> <p> <em> Tôm </em> ( '''''תֹּם''''' , Strong'S #8537), “completeness.” This noun, which occurs 25 times, signifies “completeness” in the following senses: fullness (Job 21:23), innocency or simplicity (2 Sam. 15:11), integrity (Gen. 20:5). </p> <p> '''C. Verb. ''' </p> <p> <em> Tâmam </em> ( '''''תָּמַם''''' , Strong'S #8552), “to be complete, be finished, be consumed, be without blame.” This verb, which appears 64 times, has cognates in Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic. The word means “to be finished or completed” in Gen. 47:18: “When that year was ended, they came unto him.…” </p>

<p> PER'FECT, a. L. perfectus, perficio, to complete per and facio, to do or make through, to carry to the end. </p> 1. [[Finished]] complete consummate not defective having all that is requisite to its nature and kind as a perfect statue a perfect likeness a perfect work a perfect system. <p> As full, as perfect in a hair as heart. </p> 2. Fully informed completely skilled as men perfect in the use of arms perfect in discipline. 3. Complete in moral excellencies. <p> Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. &nbsp;Matthew 5 </p> 4. Manifesting perfection. <p> My strength is made perfect in weakness. &nbsp;2 Corinthians 12 </p> <p> [[Perfect]] chord,in music, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the fifth and the octave a perfect consonance. </p> <p> A perfect flower, in botany, has both stamen and pistil, or at least another and stigma. </p> <p> Perfect tense, in grammar, the preterit tense a tense which expresses an act completed. </p> <p> [[Per'Fect, L]]  perfectus, perficio. To finish or complete so as to leave nothing wanting to give to any thing all that is requisite to its nature and kind as, to perfect a picture or statue. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 8 </p> <p> -Inquire into the nature and properties of things, and thereby perfect our ideas of distinct species. </p> <p> If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. &nbsp;1 John 4 . </p> 1. To instruct fully to make fully skillful as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture to perfect soldiers in discipline.