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Strong's #4966 - מָתוּק
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1) sweet (adjective)
2) sweetness, pleasant (thing) (noun masculine)
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2364) qtm (מתק MTQ) AC: ? CO: Sweet AB: ?
V) qtm (מתק MTQ) - Sweet: KJV (6): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) sweet - Strongs: H4985 (מָתַק), H4988 (מָתַק)
Nm) qtm (מתק MTQ) - Sweetness: KJV (2): sweetness - Strongs: H4986 (מָתֵק)
am) qtmm (ממתק MMTQ) - Sweet: KJV (2): sweet - Strongs: H4477 (מַמְתַקִּים)
cm) qftm (מתוק MTWQ) - Sweet: KJV (12): sweetness, sweeter, sweet - Strongs: H4966 (מָתוּק)
dm) qftm (מתוק MTWQ) - Sweet: KJV (12): sweeter, sweet, sweetness - Strongs: H4966 (מָתוּק)
gm) qtfm (מותק MWTQ) - Sweetness: KJV (1): sweetness - Strongs: H4987 (מֹתֶק)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
noun [masculine] sweetness (on form see Lag BN 30,60, compare Ba NB 13,36); — absolute ׳מ Judges 14:14 9t.; feminine מְתוּקָה Ecclesiastes 5:11; plural מְתוּקִים Psalm 19:11; —
1 sweet, of honey Judges 14:14 (where ׳מ = substantive a sweet thing), Judges 14:18 (both Samson's riddle), Proverbs 24:13; so = sweetness, Ezekiel 3:3; more Generally, ׳כָּלמַֿר מ Proverbs 27:7 every bitter thing is sweet to one hungry; figurative Psalm 19:11 (God's commandments, sweeter than honey), compare Proverbs 16:24 (simile of pleasant words) לְחִכִּי׳וּפִרְיוֺ מ Song of Solomon 2:3 (i.e his caresses); לְמָ֑ר׳וּמ ׳שָׂמִים מַר לְמ Isaiah 5:20 making bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter (obscuring moral distinctions; "" הָאֹמְרִים לָרַע טוֺב וְלַטּוֺב רָ֑ע).
2 = pleasant, sleep of the toiler Ecclesiastes 5:11; light Ecclesiastes 1:17 ("" טוֺב לַעֵינַיִם לִרְאוֺת אֶתהַֿשֶּׁמֶשׁ).
