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Strong's #2938 - טָעַם
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- to taste, perceive, eat
- (Qal) to taste
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2236) mou (תהאהמ ThAhM) AC: Taste CO: ? AB: Perceive: A distinguishing between flavors. Also, perception as the ability to distinguish between thoughts.
V) mou (תהאהמ ThAhM) - Taste: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (14): (vf: Paal) taste, perceive, eat - Strongs: H2938 (טָעַם), H2939 (טְעֵם)
Nm) mou (תהאהמ ThAhM) - I. Taste:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Decree:As perceived. [Aramaic only] KJV (43): taste, judgment, behaviour, advice, understanding, commandment, matter, command, account, decree, regarded, wisdom - Strongs: H2940 (טַעַם), H2941 (טַעַם), H2942 (טְעֵם)
am) moum (מתהאהמ MThAhM) - Meat: A flavorful meat. KJV (8): meat, dainty - Strongs: H4303 (מַטְעַמָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, טְעֵים taste; Assyrian noun ‰êmû, sense, command, Zim BP 92 Lyon Sargontexte 67 Asrb Annals iii, 95; Arabic 
eat, taste, examine by tasting; Ethiopic 
taste, examine by tasting, etc.) — Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳ט 1 Samuel 14:24; 3 feminine singular טָֽעֲמָה Proverbs 31:18; 1 singular טָעַמְתִּי 1 Samuel 14:29,43; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִטְעַם 1 Samuel 19:36 2t.; 1 singular אֶטְעַם 2 Samuel 3:35; 3 masculine plural יִטְעֲמוּ Jonah 3:7; Imperative masculine plural טַעֲמוּ Psalm 34:9; Infinitive absolute טָעֹם 1 Samuel 14:13; —
1 taste, of eating in small quantity, followed by accusative לָ֑חֶם 1 Samuel 14:24, מְעַט דְּבַשׁ 1 Samuel 14:29, Song of Solomon 1Samuel 14:43 (טָעִם טָעַמְתִּי); לֶחֶם אוֺ כָלמְֿאוּמָה 2 Samuel 3:35; מְאוּמָה Jonah 3:7.
2 of sense of taste, object אֶתאֲֿשֶׁר אֹכַל וְאֶתאֲֿשֶׁראֶשְׁתֶּה 2 Samuel 19:36; so חֵךְ אֹכֶל יִטְעַםלֿוֺ Job 12:11; חֵךְיִטְעַם לֶאֱכֹל Job 34:3.
3 figurative Proverbs 31:18 she tasteth that her gain is good (object clause with כִּי), i.e. she experiences that her trade is profitable; so מַעֲמוּוּרְאוּ כִּיטֿוֺב יהוה Psalm 34:9 taste ye and see that ׳י is good.
טָעַם
(1) to taste (as in all the cognate languages)
(a) to try the flavour, Job 12:11.
(b) to taste, to eat a little, 1 Samuel 14:24, 29 1 Samuel 14:29, 43 1 Samuel 14:43; Jonah 3:7.
(c) to perceive by the taste or flavour, 2 Samuel 19:36. Metaph.
(2) to perceive mentally [or spiritually], Proverbs 31:18. Psalms 34:9, טַעֲמוּ וּרְאוּ כִּי־טוֹב יְהֹוָה “taste (perceive) and see that Jehovah is good.”
Hence the words immediately following, and מַטְעַמִּים.
