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Sweetness

מֹ֫תֶקStrong’s H4987

moteq (mo-teq)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Moteq is the Hebrew word usually translated “sweetness my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?”
Judges 9:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sweetness
How it's translated
  • sweetness my 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    מֹ֫תֶק moteq · sweetness

    sweetness

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “sweetness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    SWEE'TNESS, noun

    The quality of being sweet, in any of its senses; as gratefulness to the taste; or to the smell, fragrance; agreeableness to the ear, melody; as sweetness of the voice; sweetness of elocution.

    1. Agreeableness of manners; softness; mildness; obliging civility; as sweetness of behavior.
    2. Softness; mildness; amiableness; as sweetness of temper.

    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.