מָתוֹק
Used: 12 times · Key: 4966 · BDB: מָתוֹק
Glosses
sweet (5); [is].sweet (4); a.sweet.[thing] (2)
Meaning (OSHB)
sweet tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
adj. sweet sweetness tree →
The whole BDB entry
adj. sweet, and n.[m.] sweetness (on form v. LagBN 30, 60, cf. BaNB 13, 36);—abs. מ׳ Ju 14:14 + 9 times; f. מְתוּקָה Ec 5:11; pl. מְתוּקִים ψ 19:11;— sweet, of honey Ju 14:14 (where מ׳ = subst. a sweet thing), v 18 (both Samson’s riddle), Pr 24:13; so = sweetness, Ez 3:3; more gen., כָּל־מַר מ׳ Pr 27:7 every bitter thing is sweet to one hungry; fig. ψ 19:11 (God’s commandments, sweeter than honey), cf. Pr 16:24 (sim. of pleasant words) וּפִרְיוֹ מ׳ לְחִכִּי Ct 2:3 (i.e. his caresses); שָׂמִים מַר לְמ׳ וּמ׳ לְמָ֑ר Is 5:20 making bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter (obscuring moral distinctions; ‖ הָֹאמְרִים לָרַע טוֹב וְלַטּוֹב רָ֑ע). = pleasant, sleep of the toiler Ec 5:11; light 11:7 (‖ טוֹב לַעֵינַיִם לִרְאוֹת אֶת־הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ).
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «מָתוֹק» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
נֶ֣פֶשׁ שְׂ֭בֵעָה תָּב֣וּס נֹ֑פֶת וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ רְ֝עֵבָ֗ה כָּל־מַ֥ר מָתֽוֹק׃
Word for word: an.appetite satisfied it.treads.down honey and an.appetite hungry every bitter.[thing] [is].sweet
JPS 1917: The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
אֱכָל־בְּנִ֣י דְבַ֣שׁ כִּי־ט֑וֹב וְנֹ֥פֶת מָ֝ת֗וֹק עַל־חִכֶּֽךָ׃
Word for word: eat my.son my honey (dm) [it.is].good and honey [is].sweet on palate your
JPS 1917: My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;
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