# H4988 מָתָק

מָתָק (mâthâq), Strong’s H4988: a dainty, i.e. (generally) food KJV: feed sweetly.. Occurs 1 times.

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*mâthâq* — a dainty, i.e. (generally) food

KJV: feed sweetly.

Derived from [מָתַק mâthaq](https://besorah.bible/word/H4985) (to suck, by implication, to relish)

Occurs 1 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
- [Job 24:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/24?v=20) — The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be…