Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4303
מַטְעַם
matammat-am'
delicacy
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maṭʻam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4303is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4303
a delicacy
The King James renders it: dainty (meat), savoury meat.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
matam is rendered "delicacy". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:4Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27:4מַטְעַמִּ֜ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- savory foods5
- for dainties his2
- the savory foods1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַטְעַמִּ֔ים2
- הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛ים1
- לְמַטְעַמּוֹתָ֑יו1
- לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃1
- מַטְעַמִּ֜ים1
- מַטְעַמִּ֖ים1
- מַטְעַמִּ֛ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural5HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
six uses
Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
- מַטְעַמִּ֜יםmatamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: savory foods
‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’
- מַטְעַמִּ֖יםmatamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: savory foods
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
- מַטְעַמִּ֛יםmatamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: savory foods
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
- מַטְעַמִּ֔יםmatamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: savory foods
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
- הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛יםhamatamimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the savory foods
He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
- מַטְעַמִּ֔יםmatamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: savory foods
Proverbs
two uses
Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
- לְמַטְעַמּוֹתָ֑יוlematamotavpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for dainties his
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
- לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃lematamotavpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for dainties his
The letters
Gematria 159· 719 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.