מָתַקmâthaq/maw-thak'/
HebrewH49855 occurrences (KJV)
to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet
KJV renders it: be (made, [idiom] take) sweet.
Where it appears
- Exod 15:25Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
- Job 20:12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
- Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
- Ps 55:14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
- Prov 9:17“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.