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# מָתוֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4966

**sweet** — used 12 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

sweet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4966/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָתוֹק: adj. sweet sweetness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4966/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. sweet, and n.\[m.\] sweetness (on form v. LagBN 30, 60, cf. BaNB 13, 36);—abs. מ׳ Ju 14:14 + 9 times; f. מְתוּקָה Ec 5:11; pl. מְתוּקִים ψ 19:11;— sweet, of honey Ju 14:14 (where מ׳ = subst. a sweet thing), v 18 (both Samson’s riddle), Pr 24:13; so = sweetness, Ez 3:3; more gen., כָּל־מַר מ׳ Pr 27:7 every bitter thing is sweet to one hungry; fig. ψ 19:11 (God’s commandments, sweeter than honey), cf. Pr 16:24 (sim. of pleasant words) וּפִרְיוֹ מ׳ לְחִכִּי Ct 2:3 (i.e. his caresses); שָׂמִים מַר לְמ׳ וּמ׳ לְמָ֑ר Is 5:20 making bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter (obscuring moral distinctions; ‖ הָֹאמְרִים לָרַע טוֹב וְלַטּוֹב רָ֑ע). = pleasant, sleep of the toiler Ec 5:11; light 11:7 (‖ טוֹב לַעֵינַיִם לִרְאוֹת אֶת־הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sweet (5); \[is\] sweet (4); a sweet \[thing\] (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.7/#tree)

נֶ֣פֶשׁ שְׂ֭בֵעָה תָּב֣וּס נֹ֑פֶת וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ רְ֝עֵבָ֗ה כָּל־מַ֥ר מָתֽוֹק׃

*Word for word:* an.appetite satisfied it.treads.down honey and an.appetite hungry every bitter.\[thing\] \[is\].sweet

*JPS 1917:* The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

[Proverbs 24:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.13/#tree)

אֱכָל־בְּנִ֣י דְבַ֣שׁ כִּי־ט֑וֹב וְנֹ֥פֶת מָ֝ת֗וֹק עַל־חִכֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* eat my.son my honey (dm) \[it.is\].good and honey \[is\].sweet on palate your

*JPS 1917:* My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4966.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4966/): 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).