מָתָקmâthâq

become or be sweet, pleasant

Pronunciation: maw-thawk' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4988

Meanings

Qal

1. literally become sweet, of water, figurative (Exodus 15:25; Proverbs 9:17)

2. = be pleasant (Job 21:33)

3. suck (Job 24:20)

Hiph`il: (declarative Hiph`il) (Job 20:12; Psalms 55:15)

Same root

מָתַקmâthaq · H4985to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet

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).