matam · tasty food

What it means

matam (מַטְעַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tasty food”.

A dish carefully prepared.

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. Savory fare, a dish carefully prepared.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tasty food ×6
• delicacies ×2

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Proverbs×2

• Genesis 27:4

  and make me tasty food such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me game and make me tasty food, so that I may eat and bless you before YHWH before my death.’

• Genesis 27:9

  Go, please, to the flock and get me from there two good young goats, and I will make them into tasty food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:14

  So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made tasty food such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son.

• Genesis 27:31

  He also made tasty food and brought it to his father, and he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

• Proverbs 23:3

  Do not crave his delicacies, for they are bread of lies.

• Proverbs 23:6

  Do not eat the bread of the evil of eye, and do not crave his delicacies;