To perceive
טָעַםStrong’s H2938taam (ta-am)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taam is the Hebrew word usually translated “tasted”, “it tastes” and “it tasted”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.”
Meaning
- To taste, perceive, eat(Qal) to taste
How it's translated
- i tasted 2
- it tastes 2
- it tasted 1
- certainly 1
- i will taste 1
- will he taste 1
- taste 1
- she perceives 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jonah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 14:29Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
- 1 Samuel 14:43Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
- 2 Samuel 3:35And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
- 2 Samuel 19:35I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
- Job 12:11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
- Job 34:3For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Hebrew dictionary
טָעַם taam · to perceive
1) to taste, perceive, eat 1a) (Qal) to taste Aramaic equivalent: te.am (טְעֵם "to feed" H2939)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perceive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERCE'IVE, verb transitive
[Latin percipio; per and capio, to take.]
- To have knowledge or receive impressions of external objects through the medium or instrumentality of the senses or bodily organs; as, to perceive light or color; to perceive the cold or ice or the taste of honey.
- To know; to understand; to observe.
- To be affected by; to receive impressions from.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.