Taam טַ֫עַם

Taam (Hebrew טַ֫עַם, Strong's H2940) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “taste”. It occurs 12 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Taam, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 16:31
  And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Numbers

• Numbers 11:8
  And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 21:13
  And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
• 1 Samuel 25:33
  And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

Job

• Job 6:6
  Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
• Job 12:20
  He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

Psalms

• Psalm 119:66
  Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 11:22
  As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
• Proverbs 26:16
  The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 48:11
  Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

Jonah

• Jonah 3:7
  And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).