Perfection
תִּכְלָהStrong’s H8502tikhlah (tikh-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tikhlah is the Hebrew word usually translated “perfection”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.”
Meaning
- Perfection, completion, completeness
How it's translated
- perfection 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תִּכְלָה tikhlah · perfection
perfection, completion, completeness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perfection” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERFEC'TION, noun
[Latin perfectio.]
The state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; as perfection in an art or science; perfection in a system of morals.
- Physical perfection is when a natural object has all its powers, faculties or qualities entire and in full vigor, and all its parts in due proportion.
- Metaphysical or transcendental perfection is the possession of all the essential attributes or all the parts necessary to the integrity of a substance.
- Moral perfection is the complete possession of all moral excellence, as in the Supreme Being; or the possession of such moral qualities and virtues as a thing is capable of.
- A quality, endowment or acquirement completely excellent, or of great worth.
All definitions
- An inherent or essential attribute of supreme or infinite excellence; or one perfect in its kind; as the perfections of God.
- Exactness; as, to imitate a model to perfection
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.