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Saturday, July 19th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #4987 - מֹתֶק

Transliteration

môtheq

Phonetics

mo'-thek

Origin

from (H4985)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

1268b

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

sweetness

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Judges 1

BSB (1)

Judges 1

CSB (1)

Judges 1

ESV (1)

Judges 1

KJV (1)

Judges 1

LEB (1)

Judges 1

LSB (1)

Judges 1

N95 (1)

Judges 1

NAS (1)

Judges 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Judges 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2364) q t m (מתק MTQ) AC: ? CO: Sweet AB: ?

V) q t m (מתק MTQ) - Sweet: KJV (6): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) sweet - Strongs: H4985 (מָתַק), H4988 (מָתַק)

N^m) q t m (מתק MTQ) - Sweetness: KJV (2): sweetness - Strongs: H4986 (מָתֵק)

a^m) q t m m (ממתק MMTQ) - Sweet: KJV (2): sweet - Strongs: H4477 (מַמְתַקִּים)

c^m) q f t m (מתוק MTWQ) - Sweet: KJV (12): sweetness, sweeter, sweet - Strongs: H4966 (מָתוּק)

d^m) q f t m (מתוק MTWQ) - Sweet: KJV (12): sweeter, sweet, sweetness - Strongs: H4966 (מָתוּק)

g^m) q t f m (מותק MWTQ) - Sweetness: KJV (1): sweetness - Strongs: H4987 (מֹתֶק)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[מֹ֫תֶק] noun [masculine] sweetness; — only suffix מָתְקִי Judges 9:11 my sweetness (fig-tree loquitur), i.e. sweetness of the fruit.

List of Word Forms

מָתְקִ֔י מתקי mā·ṯə·qî mateKi māṯəqî