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Strong's #4988 - מָתַק
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) (Qal) to feed sweetly
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2364) qtm (מתק MTQ) AC: ? CO: Sweet AB: ?
V) qtm (מתק MTQ) - Sweet: KJV (6): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) sweet - Strongs: H4985 (מָתַק), H4988 (מָתַק)
Nm) qtm (מתק MTQ) - Sweetness: KJV (2): sweetness - Strongs: H4986 (מָתֵק)
am) qtmm (ממתק MMTQ) - Sweet: KJV (2): sweet - Strongs: H4477 (מַמְתַקִּים)
cm) qftm (מתוק MTWQ) - Sweet: KJV (12): sweetness, sweeter, sweet - Strongs: H4966 (מָתוּק)
dm) qftm (מתוק MTWQ) - Sweet: KJV (12): sweeter, sweet, sweetness - Strongs: H4966 (מָתוּק)
gm) qtfm (מותק MWTQ) - Sweetness: KJV (1): sweetness - Strongs: H4987 (מֹתֶק)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
מָתַק fut. יִמְתַּק.
(1) i.q. Syr. to suck, to eat with pleasure (compare מָצַץ); Job 24:20, מְתָקוֹ רִמָּה “the worm shall feed sweetly upon him.”
(2) to be or become sweet, sweet things being commonly sucked, Proverbs 9:17; Exodus 15:25. Metaph. Job 21:33, מָֽתְקוּ לוֹ רִגְבֵי נָֽחַל “the clods of the valley are sweet to him,” the earth is light upon him.
Hiphil
(1) to render sweet or pleasant. Metaph. Psalms 55:15, אַשֶׁר יַחְדָּו נַמְתִּיקסוֹד “(we) who made sweet together familiar conversation,” i.e. who, as being familiar friends, held sweet discourse.
(2) intrans. to be sweet (pr. to cause sweetness, see Gramm. § 52. 2), Job 20:12.
Deriv. מַמְתַּקִּים [and the following words].
