taam · taste; judgment

What it means

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

Taste. In other passages, good judgment, discretion.

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 is felt in the mouth when eating: the flavor of a food.
2. The ability to see what is fitting and choose well.
3. The way a person behaves before others.
4. What the king commands in writing or by word.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• taste ×4
• discernment ×3
• behavior ×2
• judgment ×2
• decree ×1
• flavor ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Jonah×1

• Exodus 16:31

  The house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

• Numbers 11:8

  The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

• 1 Samuel 21:13

  So he changed his behavior before their eyes and pretended to be mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down onto his beard.

• 1 Samuel 25:33

  Blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from entering into guilt of blood and from saving myself with my own hand.

• Job 6:6

  Can what is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there flavor in the slime of the purslane?

• Job 12:20

  He removes the speech of the faithful, and the discernment of the elders he takes away.

• Psalms 34:1

  Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, and he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless YHWH at all times; continually his praise will be in my mouth.

• Psalms 119:66

  Good discernment and knowledge teach me, for in your commandments I have believed.

• Proverbs 11:22

  A ring of gold in the snout of a pig, so is a beautiful woman who turns away from judgment.

• Proverbs 26:16

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven who answer with judgment.

• Jeremiah 48:11

  Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has rested quietly on his lees, and he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and into exile he has not gone; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent has not changed.

• 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.