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# מֹתֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4987

**sweetness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sweetness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4987/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹ֫תֶק: sweetness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4987/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sweetness;—only sf. מָתְקִי Ju 9:11 my sweetness (fig-tree loquitur), i.e. sweetness of the fruit.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: sweetness (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 9:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.11/#tree)

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ הַתְּאֵנָ֔ה הֶחֳדַ֙לְתִּי֙ אֶת־מָתְקִ֔י וְאֶת־תְּנוּבָתִ֖י הַטּוֹבָ֑ה וְהָ֣לַכְתִּ֔י לָנ֖וּעַ עַל־הָעֵצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.said to them the.fig tree will I.cease? (et) sweetness my and (et) fruit my (the) good and will.I.go to sway over the trees

*JPS 1917:* But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4987.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4987/): 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).