Soundness
מְתֹםStrong’s H4974metom (me-tom)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metom is the Hebrew word usually translated “soundness”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.”
Meaning
- Soundness, entirety, entire
How it's translated
- soundness 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 38:7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Hebrew dictionary
מְתֹם metom · soundness
soundness, entirety, entire
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “soundness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOUND'NESS, noun
- Wholeness; entireness; an unbroken, unimpaired or undecayed state; as the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, of a limb, etc.
- An unimpaired state of an animal or vegetable body; a state in which the organs are entire and regularly perform their functions.
- Firmness; strength; solidity; truth; as soundness of reasoning or argument, of doctrine or principles.
- Truth; rectitude; firmness; freedom from error or fallacy; orthodoxy; as soundness of faith.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.