Hebrew adjective · H4966
מָתוֹק
mathoqmaw-thoke'
sweet
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâthôwq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4966is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4966
sweet
The King James renders it: sweet(-er, -ness).
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
mathoq is rendered "sweet". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 14:14So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
Judges 14:14מָת֑וֹק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's twelve uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sweet5
- and sweet3
- a sweet2
- into sweet1
- to sweet1
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 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- מָת֥וֹק2
- וּמָת֖וֹק1
- וּמָת֥וֹק1
- וּמְתוּקִ֥ים1
- לְמָת֖וֹק1
- לְמָתֽוֹק׃ פ1
- מָת֑וֹק1
- מָ֝ת֗וֹק1
- מָּת֣וֹק1
- מָתֽוֹק׃1
- מְתוּקָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular6HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2HC/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
- adjective · feminine singular1HAafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
Judges
two uses
So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
- מָת֑וֹקmatokadjective · masculine singulartagged: a sweet
Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
- מָּת֣וֹקmatokadjective · masculine singulartagged: sweet
Psalms
one use
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- וּמְתוּקִ֥יםumetukimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and sweet
Proverbs
three uses
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
- מָת֥וֹקmatokadjective · masculine singulartagged: a sweet
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
- מָ֝ת֗וֹקmatokadjective · masculine singulartagged: sweet
The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
- מָתֽוֹק׃matokadjective · masculine singulartagged: sweet
Ecclesiastes
two uses
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
- מְתוּקָה֙metukahadjective · feminine singulartagged: sweet
Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.
- וּמָת֖וֹקumatokconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and sweet
Song of Solomon
one use
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
- מָת֥וֹקmatokadjective · masculine singulartagged: sweet
Isaiah
two uses
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
- לְמָת֖וֹקlematokpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: into sweet
- וּמָת֥וֹקumatokconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and sweet
Ezekiel
one use
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
- לְמָתֽוֹק׃ פlematokpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to sweet
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.