HebrewH2940Noun (Masculine)

טַ֫עַם

ta.am

10Occurrences
H2940Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate

from H2938 (טָעַם);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. taste, judgment 1a) taste 1b) judgment (fig.) 1c) decision, decree

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

טַ֫עַם appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Job
2
Proverbs
2
1 Samuel
1
Exodus
1
Jeremiah
1
Jonah
1
Numbers
1
Psalms
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 25:33BSB

Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

Jeremiah 48:11BSB

Moab has been at ease from youth,settled like wine on its dregs;he has not been poured from vessel to vesselor gone into exile.So his flavor has remained the same,and his aroma is unchanged.

Job 6:6BSB

Is tasteless food eaten without salt,or is there flavor in the white of an egg ?

Numbers 11:8BSB

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

Proverbs 26:16BSB

The slacker is wiser in his own eyesthan seven men who answer discreetly.

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