Hebrew verb · H4985
מָתַק
mathaqmaw-thak'
be sweet
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâthaq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4985is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4985
to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet
The King James renders it: be (made, [idiom] take) sweet.
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
mathaq is rendered "be sweet". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:25And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
Exodus 15:25וַֽיִּמְתְּק֖וּ
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
- and they became sweet1
- it is sweet1
- it sucks on him1
- they are sweet1
- they will be sweet1
- we made 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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- וַֽיִּמְתְּק֖וּ1
- יִמְתָּ֑קוּ1
- מְתָ֘ק֤וֹ1
- מָֽתְקוּ־1
- נַמְתִּ֣יק1
- תַּמְתִּ֣יק1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVhi1cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVhi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms/Sp3ms
Exodus
one use
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
- וַֽיִּמְתְּק֖וּvaiyimtekuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they became sweet
Job
three uses
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
- תַּמְתִּ֣יקtamtikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is sweet
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
- מָֽתְקוּ־mateku-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be sweet
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
- מְתָ֘ק֤וֹmetakoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it sucks on him
Psalms
one use
We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
- נַמְתִּ֣יקnamtikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we made sweet
Proverbs
one use
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- יִמְתָּ֑קוּyimtakuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are 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.
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.