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# מַטְעַמִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4303

**tasty food** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tasty food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4303/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַטְעָם: n.m. tasty savoury food, dainties [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4303/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. only pl. tasty or savoury food, dainties—מַטְעַמִּים Gn 27:4, 7, 9, 14, 17, 31 (all J); sf. מַטְעַמּוֹתָיו Pr 23:3; מַטְעַמֹּתָיו v 6.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: delicious food(s) (5); his delicious (2); food(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.3/#tree)

אַל־תִּ֭תְאָולְמַטְעַמּוֹתָ֑יו וְ֝ה֗וּא לֶ֣חֶם כְּזָבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* do.not crave for his.delicious food(s) and it \[is\].food of.lies

*JPS 1917:* Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.

[Proverbs 23:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.6/#tree)

אַל־תִּלְחַ֗ם אֶת־לֶ֭חֶם רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְאַל־תִּ֝תְאָ֗יו לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* do.not eat (et) \[the\].food of.a.\[person\].evil of.eye and do.not crave for his.delicious food(s)

*JPS 1917:* Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4303.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4303/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).