טַעַםṭaʻam

taste, judgement

Pronunciation: tah'-am · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2940

Meanings

1. taste (Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11:8; Job 6:6)

2. judgement, discretion, discernment (1 Samuel 25:33; Proverbs 11:22; Job 12:20)

3. decision, decree (Daniel 3:10; Jonah 3:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 16:31 The Israelites called the food manna. It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers.
  • Numbers 11:8 The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil.
  • 1 Samuel 21:13 So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his beard.
  • 1 Samuel 25:33 Thank God for your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my own hands.
  • Job 6:6 Don’t people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?
  • Job 12:20 He silences the trusted adviser and removes the insight of the elders.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).