Tame
Bible Usage:
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G1150 Used 2 times
TAME, adjective
1. That has lost its native wildness and shyness; mild; accustomed to man; domestic; as a tame deer; a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
And you, tame slaves of the laborious plow.
3. Spiritless; unanimated; as a tame poem. [Not elegant nor in use.
TAME, verb transitive [Latin domo; Heb. to be silent, dumb.]
1. To reclaim; to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; as, to tame a wild beast.
2. To civilize; as, to tame the ferocious inhabitants of the forest.
3. To subdue; to conquer; to depress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
4. To subdue; to repress; as wildness or licentiousness.
The tongue can no man tame James 3:8.
TA'MED, participle passive Reclaimed from wildness; domesticated; made gentle; subdued.
TA'MELESS, adjective Wild; untamed; untamable. [Not much used.]
TA'MELY, adverb With unresisting submission; meanly; servilely; without manifesting spirit; as, to submit tamely to oppression; to bear reproach tamely
TA'MENESS, noun The quality of being tame or gentle; a state of domestication.
1. Unresisting submission; meanness in bearing insults or injuries; want of spirit.
TA'MER,noun One that tames or subdues; one that reclaims from wildness.