Thummim
תֻּמִּיםStrong’s H8550tummim (tum-mim)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tummim is the Hebrew word usually translated “thummim” and “thummim your”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.”
Meaning
- Stones provided for the means of achieving a sacred lotused with the Urim, the will of God was revealed
How it's translated
- the thummim 2
- thummim your 1
- and to thummim 1
- and thummim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 8:8And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
- Deuteronomy 33:8And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
- Ezra 2:63And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
- Nehemiah 7:65And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
Hebrew dictionary
תֻּמִּים tummim · Thummim
§ Thummim = "perfection" 1) stones provided for the means of achieving a sacred lot 1a) used with the Urim, the will of God was revealed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thummim” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THUM'MIM, noun
plural A Hebrew word denoting perfections. The Urim and thummim were worn in the breastplate of the high priest, but what they were, has never been satisfactorily ascertained.
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.