H4985 מָתַק
mâthaq — to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet
KJV: be (made, [idiom] take) sweet.
Occurs 5 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מָתֹק] vb. become or be sweet, pleasant
- Qal
- 1 lit. become sweet
- 2 = be pleasant
- 3 suck
- Hiph. if evil gives a sweet taste in his mouth; we who used to make sweet (our) intimacy.
Where it occurs
- Exodus 15:25 — Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet…
- Psalms 55:15 — We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
- Proverbs 9:17 — “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
- Job 20:12 — “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
- Job 21:33 — The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.