Delicacy
מַטְעָםStrong’s H4303matam (mat-am)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matam is the Hebrew word usually translated “savory food” and “dainties his”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Tasty or savory food, delectable food, dainties
How it's translated
- savory food 5
- for dainties his 2
- the savory food 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Proverbs 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:7Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
- Genesis 27:9Go 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:
- Genesis 27:14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 27:17And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:31And 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.
- Proverbs 23:3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Hebrew dictionary
מַטְעָם matam · delicacy
tasty or savory food, delectable food, dainties
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “delicacy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELICACY, noun
In a general sense, that which delights or pleases. Hence,
- Fineness of texture; smoothness; softness; tenderness; as the delicacy of the skin; and nearly in the same sense, applicable to food; as the delicacy of flesh, meat or vegetables.
- Daintiness; pleasantness to the taste.
- Elegant or feminine beauty; as delicacy of form.
- Nicety; minute accuracy; as the delicacy of coloring in painting.
All definitions
- Neatness in dress; elegance proceeding from a nice selection and adjustment of the several parts of dress.
- Softness of manners; civility or politemess proceeding from a nice observance of propriety, and a desire to please; as delicacy of behavior.
- Indulgence; gentle treatment; as delicacy of education.
- Tenderness; scrupulousness; the quality manifested in nice attention to right, and care to avoid wrong, or offense.
- Acute or nice perception of what is pleasing to the sense of tasting; hence figuratively, a nice perception of beauty and deformity, or the faculty of such nice perception.
- That which delights the senses, particularly the taste; applied to eatables; as, the peach is a great delicacy
- Tenderness of constitution; weakness; that quality or state of the animal body which renders it very impressible to injury; as delicacy of constitution or frame.
- Smallness; fineness; slenderness; tenuity; as the delicacy of a thread, or fiber.
- Tenderness; nice susceptibility of impression; as delicacy of feeling.
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.