מַטְעָם
dainties
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4303 appears in the Book of Genesis — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis
- Genesis 27:4 מַטְעַמִּ֜ים n c mp Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
- Genesis 27:7 מַטְעַמִּ֖ים n c mp 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
- Genesis 27:9 מַטְעַמִּ֛ים n c mp Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
- Genesis 27:14 מַטְעַמִּ֔ים n c mp He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 27:17 הַ/מַּטְעַמִּ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c mp She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:31 מַטְעַמִּ֔ים n c mp He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מטעם (maṭʻam) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “dainties.” It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 75% of its uses. With 8 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 27:4. Translators differ — “savoury meat” in the King James Version, then “tasty food” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4303 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Savoury meat 6×
- American Standard Version: Savory food 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tasty dish 3×, Delicacies 2×, Tasty food 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tasty food 6×, Delicious morsels 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4303 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4303 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4303 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4303 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- tasty or savory food, delectable food, dainties
Word origin
[ מַטְעָם ] n.m. only pl. tasty or savoury food, dainties
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טעם (ṭâʻam) (H2938) — to taste.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H4303 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַטְעַמִּ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 27:14 | 2 |
| הַ/מַּטְעַמִּ֛ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 27:17 | 1 |
| לְ/מַטְעַמֹּתָֽי/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 23:6 | 1 |
| לְ/מַטְעַמּוֹתָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 23:3 | 1 |
| מַטְעַמִּ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 27:7 | 1 |
| מַטְעַמִּ֛ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 27:9 | 1 |
| מַטְעַמִּ֜ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 27:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4303, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
