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H4966מָתוֹקma.toq

sweetPart of speech: Hebrew Adjective

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 2
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. 1
  20. 3
  21. 2
  22. 1
  23. 2
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 1
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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12 occurrences in 11 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Judges 14:14

    And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days declare the riddle.

    מָת֑וֹק ma.Tok “a sweet [thing]”

  2. Judges 14:18

    And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

    מָּת֣וֹק ma.Tok “[is] sweet”

  3. Psalms 19:11

    More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

    וּמְתוּקִ֥ים (מְתוּקִ֥ים) me.tu.Kim “sweet”

  4. Proverbs 16:24

    Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

    מָת֥וֹק ma.Tok “a sweet [thing]”

  5. Proverbs 24:13

    My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;

    מָ֝ת֗וֹק ma.Tok “[is] sweet”

  6. Proverbs 27:7

    The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

    מָתֽוֹק׃ ma.Tok “[is] sweet”

  7. Ecclesiastes 5:11

    Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

    מְתוּקָה֙ me.tu.Kah “[is] sweet”

  8. Ecclesiastes 11:7

    And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

    וּמָת֖וֹק (מָת֖וֹק) ma.Tok “[is] sweet”

  9. Song of Songs 2:3

    As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.

    מָת֥וֹק ma.Tok “[was] sweet”

  10. Isaiah 5:20

    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!

    לְמָת֖וֹק (מָת֖וֹק) ma.Tok “sweet”וּמָת֥וֹק (מָת֥וֹק) ma.Tok “sweet”

  11. Ezekiel 3:3

    And He said unto me: 'Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee.' Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

    לְמָתֽוֹק׃ (מָתֽוֹק) ma.Tok “sweet”