taam · taste

What it means

taam (טָעַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “taste”.

To taste food; figuratively, to perceive.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To take a little food into the mouth to find out what it tastes like.
2. To know something because one has lived it oneself.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• taste ×6
• tastes ×3
• tasted ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jonah×1

• 1 Samuel 14:24

  The men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, and Saul put the people under an imprecation, saying, “Cursed be the man who eats bread until the evening, and until I have avenged myself on my enemies.” And none of the people tasted bread.

• 1 Samuel 14:29

  Jonathan said, “My father has brought ruin on the land. See, please, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

• 1 Samuel 14:43

  Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him and said, “I did indeed taste, with the tip of the rod that was in my hand, a little honey. Here I am; I will die.”

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  Then all the people came to make David eat bread while it was still day; but David swore, saying, “So may Elohim do to me, and so may he add, if before the sun goes down I taste bread or anything at all.”

• 2 Samuel 19:35

  I am eighty years old today. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be still a burden to my lord the king?

• Job 12:11

  Does not the ear test words, as the palate tastes food?

• Job 34:3

  For the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

• Psalms 34:8

  Taste and see that YHWH is good; happy is the man who takes refuge in him.

• Proverbs 31:18

  She tastes that her gain is good; her lamp does not go out at night.

• Jonah 3:7

  And he had it proclaimed and said in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his great men, saying, “Human being and livestock, herd and flock, are not to taste anything; they are not to graze, and water they are not to drink.

And 1 more times.