Matam מַטְעָם

Matam (Hebrew מַטְעָם, Strong's H4303) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “delicacy”. It occurs 8 times in 8 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 Matam, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 27:4
  And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
• Genesis 27:7
  Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’
• Genesis 27:9
  Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
• Genesis 27:14
  And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
• Genesis 27:17
  And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
• Genesis 27:31
  And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

Proverbs

• Proverbs 23:3
  Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
• Proverbs 23:6
  Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

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).