8548. tamid
Lexical Summary
tamid: continuity
Original Word: תָּמִיד
Transliteration: tamid
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-meed')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: continuity
Meaning: continuance, constant, ellipt, the regular, sacrifice
Strong's Concordance
always, continual employment daily, nevermore, perpetual

From an unused root meaning to stretch; properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. The regular (daily) sacrifice -- alway(-s), continual (employment, -ly), daily, ((n-))ever(-more), perpetual.

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H8548. tamid

תָּמִידnoun masculineDaniel 12:11 continuity (perhaps originally extent; Late Hebrew as Biblical Hebrew, Ecclus תמיד‎ Ecclesiasticus 45:14); — ׳ת‎ always absolute; —

1 earliest and oftenest as adverb, continually:

a. of going on without interruption = continuously, Hosea 12:7; Jeremiah 6:7; Nahum 3:19; Isaiah 21:8; 49:16; 51:13 (+ כָּלהַֿיּוֺם‎), 52:5 (+ id.), 60:11 ("" וָלַיְלָח יַוֺמָם‎, 62:6 (+ וְכָלהַֿלַּיְלָה כָּלהַֿיּוֺם‎), 65:3; Obadiah 16; Habakkuk 1:17; Deuteronomy 11:12; 1 Kings 10:8 2 Chronicles 9:7; 1 Chronicles 16:11, 37; especially (sometimes hyperbole) in Psalms : Psalm 16:8; 25:15; 34:2 ("" בְּכָלעֵֿת‎), 35:27; compare 40:17; 70:5; 38:18; 40:12; 50:8; 51:5; 69:24; 71:6; 71:14; 72:15; 73:23; 74:23; 105:4; 109:15; 109:19; 119:44 (+ לְעוֺלָם וֶָעך׃‎), Psalm 40:109; v<Bible/VERSE ONLY:119:117 (so also 16:5, for תומי ᵑ0‎, Bi Che; תּוֺסיף‎ Ol Bae); Proverbs 5:19 ("" בִּכָלעֵֿת‎), 6:21; 15:15; 28:14; also Ezekiel 38:8 (strike out ᵑ6‎ Co ToyHpt. Berthol), Leviticus 6:6 (P; of fire, "" תִכְבֶּה לֹא‎), and Lev 46:14 (but ᵐ5 תּ ׳חֻקַּת‎ Co Berthol); also in ritual, 24:8 (H), compare Exodus 25:30 (P; shew-bread), Leviticus 24:2-3, 4 (H), compare Exodus 27:20 (P; of lamp), 28:29-30, 38.

b. of regular repetition: meals 2 Samuel 9:7, 10, 13; 2 Kings 25:29 = Jeremiah 52:33; journeys 2 Kings 4:19; compare Numbers 9:16; Psalm 71:3; of ritual: sacrifice, תָּמִיד לַיּוֺםExodus 29:38; compare 1 Chronicles 16:40; 23:31; 2 Chronicles 24:14.

2 as substantive:

a. of uninterrupted continuity, ת ׳אַנְשֵׁיEzekiel 39:14 men of continuity, i.e. men continually employed for the purpose; הַתּ ׳לֶחֶםNumbers 4:7 the bread of continuity, i.e. the bread that is always there, so ת ׳מַעֲרֶכֶת2 Chronicles 2:3, and perhaps ת ׳חֲצֹצְרוֺת1 Chronicles 16:6.

b. of regular repetition מ ׳אֲרֻחַת2 Kings 25:30, i.e. a regular allowance, = Jeremiah 52:34; especially of ritual: ת ׳קְטֹרֶתExodus 30:8 (P); most often ת ׳עֹלַתEzekiel 46:15 (every morning), Exodus 29:42 (morning and evening, so) Numbers 28:6; Ezra 3:5, so read also Numbers 28:3 (Di) for ת ׳עוֺלָה ᵑ0‎ (לַיּוֺם‎); הַת ׳עֹלַת28:10, 15, 23, 24, 31; 29:6, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 38; Neh Nehemiah 10:35; rarely ת ׳מִנְחַתNumbers 4:16 (P), Nehemiah 10:34; as appositive, ת ׳מִנְחָהLeviticus 6:13 meal-offering as a regular observance (compare Ges§ 131, 2 (b) DaSynt.§ 29 (b); on text see Di, NowArchaeology ii. 124 f.), (and Numbers 28:3 ᵑ0‎, but see above)

c. (late) ׳הַת‎ alone = daily (morning and evening) burnt-offering (NowArchaeology ii. 222 f.) Daniel 8:11-12, 13; 11:31; 12:11 (so Talmud, even in plural תְּמִידִין‎).








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