Strong's Hebrew · H4303
H4303 maṭʻam
מַטְעַם
mat-am'
delicacy
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maṭʻam appears 8 times in Scripture, in Genesis and Proverbs. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a delicacy
In the King James Version
dainty (meat), savoury meat.
Derivation
or (feminine) מַטְעַמָּה; from H2938 (טָעַם);
Appears 8 times in Scripture
“Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;”
“Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.””
“Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.”
“So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.”
“‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’”
“Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.”
“Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.”
“He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
