מָתַק
matak · be sweet
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4985 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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matak (מָתַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be sweet”.
Become sweet.
How to say it
ma·tak
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
- Taste good, be pleasant.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 15:25
He cried out to YHWH, and YHWH showed him a tree; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them.
- Job 20:12
Though evil is sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue,
- Job 21:33
Sweet to him are the clods of the valley; and after him every human being goes, and before him, without number.
- Psalms 55:14
with whom together we made sweet intimate counsel; in the house of Elohim we walked with the throng.
- Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”