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Strong’s H4966 · Hebrew

מָתוֹק

mâthôwq · maw-thoke'

Origin or מָתוּק; from מָתַק (H4985);

Meaning sweet

In the King James Version sweet(-er, -ness).

In 11 verses of the King James Version

  1. Judges 14:14And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
  2. Judges 14:18And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
  3. Psalms 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
  4. Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  5. Proverbs 24:13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
  6. Proverbs 27:7The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
  7. Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
  8. Ecclesiastes 11:7Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
  9. Song of Songs 2:3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  10. Isaiah 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
  11. Ezekiel 3:3And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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