Lexical Definition

‎תָּמִיד‎ tâmîyd (taw-meed') continually ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to stretch

alway(-s), continual (employment, -ly), daily, (n-)ever(-more), perpetual.

• properly, continuance (as indefinite extension)
• but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly)
• ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice

1) continuity, perpetuity, to stretch
1a) continually, continuously (as adverb)
1b) continuity (subst)

See Greek: ἀεί · αἰών · θυσία · ὅλος · πᾶς · πᾶς · τέλος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎תָּמִיד‎ noun masculine^{Dan 12:11} continuity (perhaps originally extent; Late Hebrew as Biblical Hebrew, Ecclus ‎תמיד‎ Eccl 45:14); — ‎׳‎‎ת‎ always absolute; —

1. earliest and oftenest as adverb, continually:
a. of going on without interruption = continuously, Hos 12:7*; Jer 6:7; Nah 3:19; Isa 21:8; Isa 49:16; Isa 51:13 (+ ‎כָּלהַֿיּוֺם‎), Isa 52:5 (+ id.), Isa 60:11 (|| ‎יַוֺמָם וָלַיְלָח‎, Isa 62:6 (+ ‎כָּלהַֿיּוֺם וְכָלהַֿלַּיְלָה‎), Isa 65:3; Obad 1:16; Hab 1:17; Deut 11:12; 1Kgs 10:8 = 2Chr 9:7; 1Chr 16:11; 1Chr 16:37 especially (sometimes hyperbole) in Psalms : Ps 16:8; Ps 25:15; Ps 34:2* (|| ‎בְּכָלעֵֿת‎), Ps 35:27 compare Ps 40:17*; Ps 70:5*; Ps 38:18*; Ps 40:12*; Ps 50:8; Ps 51:5*; Ps 69:24*; Ps 71:6; Ps 71:14; Ps 72:15; Ps 73:23; Ps 74:23; Ps 105:4; Ps 109:15; Ps 109:19; Ps 119:44 (+ ‎וֶָ˜עך׃ לְעוֺלָם‎), vPs 40:109; (so also Ps 16:5, for ᵑ0 ‎תומי‎, Bi Che; ‎תּוֺסיף‎ Ol Bae); Prov 5:19 (|| ‎בִּכָלעֵֿת‎), Prov 6:21; Prov 15:15; Prov 28:14 also Ezek 38:8 (strike out ᵑ6 Co Toy^Hpt. Berthol), Lev 6:6* (P; of fire, || ‎לֹא תִכְבֶּה‎), and Lev 46:14 (but ‎׳‎‎חֻקַּת תּ‎ ᵐ5 Co Berthol); also in ritual, Lev 24:8 (H), compare Exod 25:30 (P; shew-bread), Lev 24:2; Lev 24:3; Lev 24:4 (H), compare Exod 27:20 (P; of lamp), Exod 28:29; Exod 28:30; Exod 28:38.
b. of regular repetition: meals 2Sam 9:7; 2Sam 9:10; 2Sam 9:13; 2Kgs 25:29 = Jer 52:33 journeys 2Kgs 4:19 compare Num 9:16; Ps 71:3 of ritual: sacrifice, ‎לַיּוֺם תָּמִיד‎ Exod 29:38 compare 1Chr 16:40; 1Chr 23:31; 2Chr 24:14.

2. as substantive:
a. of uninterrupted continuity, ‎׳‎‎אַנְשֵׁי ת‎ Ezek 39:14 men of continuity, i.e. men continually employed for the purpose; ‎׳‎‎לֶחֶם הַתּ‎ Num 4:7 the bread of continuity, i.e. the bread that is always there, so ‎׳‎‎מַעֲרֶכֶת ת‎ 2Chr 2:3*, and perhaps ‎׳‎‎חֲצֹצְרוֺת ת‎ 1Chr 16:6.
b. of regular repetition ‎׳‎‎אֲרֻחַת מ‎ 2Kgs 25:30, i.e. a regular allowance, = Jer 52:34 especially of ritual: ‎׳‎‎קְטֹרֶת ת‎ Exod 30:8 (P); most often ‎׳‎‎עֹלַת ת‎ Ezek 46:15 (every morning), Exod 29:42 (morning and evening, so) Num 28:6; Ezra 3:5, so read also Num 28:3 (Di) for ᵑ0 ‎׳‎‎עוֺלָה ת‎ (‎לַיּוֺם‎); ‎׳‎‎עֹלַת הַת‎ Num 28:10; Num 28:15; Num 28:23; Num 28:24; Num 28:31; Num 29:6; Num 29:11; Num 29:16; Num 29:19; Num 29:22; Num 29:25; Num 29:28; Num 29:31; Num 29:34; Num 29:38 Neh Neh 10:35* rarely ‎׳‎‎מִנְחַת ת‎ Num 4:16 (P), Neh 10:34* as appositive, ‎׳‎‎מִנְחָה ת‎ Lev 6:13* meal-offering as a regular observance (compare Ges^{«GKC:131»§ 131}, 2 (b) Da^{Synt.§ 29} (b); on text see Di, Now^{Archaeology ii. 124 f.}), (and Num 28:3 ᵑ0, but see above)
c. (late) ‎׳‎‎הַת‎ alone = daily (morning and evening) burnt-offering (Now^{Archaeology ii. 222 f.}) Dan 8:11; Dan 8:12; Dan 8:13; Dan 11:31; Dan 12:11 (so Talmud, even in plural ‎תְּמִידִין‎).

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