taam · order, command; report

What it means

taam (טַעַם) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “order, command; report”.

Order, command; also report (Aramaic).

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. What the king or God commands to be done (in Aramaic).
2. To report to the one in charge on what has been done.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• order ×3
• account ×1
• report ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×4
• Daniel×1

• Ezra 4:21

  Now give an order to make those men cease, and that city is not to be built until by me the order is given.

• Ezra 5:5

  But the eye of their Elah was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease until the report should go to Darius and then they should return a letter about this.

• Ezra 6:14

  And the elders of the Jews were building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built and finished by the order of the Elah of Israel and by the order of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

• Ezra 7:23

  All that is by the order of the Elah of the heavens, let it be done exactly for the house of the Elah of the heavens; for why should there be anger upon the kingdom of the king and his sons?

• Daniel 6:2

  and over them three supervisors, of whom Daniel was one, so that these satraps might give them account, and the king might not suffer loss.