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title: מֹתֶק — sweetness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֹתֶק (4987), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sweetness. BDB 1906: sweetness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֹתֶק

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«מֹתֶק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sweetness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4987 · **BDB:** מֹ֫תֶק

### Glosses

sweetness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sweetness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4987/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sweetness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4987/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sweetness;—only sf. מָתְקִי Ju 9:11 my sweetness (fig-tree loquitur), i.e. sweetness of the fruit.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מֹתֶק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4987/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 9:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.11/)

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וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ הַתְּאֵנָ֔ה הֶחֳדַ֙לְתִּי֙ אֶת־מָתְקִ֔י וְאֶת־תְּנוּבָתִ֖י הַטּוֹבָ֑ה וְהָ֣לַכְתִּ֔י לָנ֖וּעַ עַל־הָעֵצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.said to them the.fig tree will I.cease? (et) sweetness my and (et) fruit my (the) good and will.I.go to sway over the trees

*JPS 1917:* But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?

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