# H4985 מָתַק

מָתַק (mâthaq), Strong’s H4985: to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet KJV: be (made, [idiom] take) sweet.. Occurs 5 times.

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*mâthaq* — to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet

KJV: be (made, [idiom] take) sweet.

Occurs 5 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/55?v=15) — We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
- [Proverbs 9:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=17) — “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
- [Job 20:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/20?v=12) — “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
- [Job 21:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/21?v=33) — The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.