# H2940 טַעַם

טַעַם (ṭaʻam), Strong’s H2940: properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate KJV: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason…

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

KJV: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.

Derived from [טָעַם ṭâʻam](https://besorah.bible/word/H2938) (to taste)

Occurs 13 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- טַ֫עַם n.m. taste, judgment

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 16:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=31) — The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with…
- [Numbers 11:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=8) — The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made…
- [1 Samuel 21:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/21?v=14) — He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate…
- [1 Samuel 25:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=33) — Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself…
- [Jeremiah 48:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/48?v=11) — “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel…
- [Jonah 3:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/3?v=7) — He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man…
- [Psalms 34:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/34?v=1) — By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.
- [Psalms 119:66](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/119?v=66) — Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
- [Proverbs 11:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/11?v=22) — Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
- [Proverbs 26:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/26?v=16) — The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.