Melting
תֶּ֫מֶסStrong’s H8557temes (te-mes)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Temes is the Hebrew word usually translated “melting away”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.”
Meaning
- Dissolving, melting, melting (away)
How it's translated
- melting away 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
תֶּ֫מֶס temes · melting
dissolving, melting, melting (away)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “melting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MELT'ING, participle present
tense Dissolving; liquefying; softening; discouraging.
- adjective Tending to soften; softening into tenderness; as melting eloquence.
All definitions and other forms of “melting”
MELT'ING, noun
The act of softening; the act of rendering tender.
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.