H2940: טַעַם
ṭaʻam · pronounced tah'-am · “taste”
Definition
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
KJV translates it as: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
Word origin: from H2938 (טָעַם);
Extended definition
1a) taste
1b) judgment (fig.)
1c) decision, decree
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2940 is translated
- its ×3
- his ×2
- of discernment ×2
- the taste of ×1
- your ×1
- taste ×1
- the discernment of ×1
- discernment ×1
- the decree of ×1
Bible verses with H2940 (ṭaʻam)
Ṭaʻam appears in 11 verses.
- Exodus 16:31
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
- Numbers 11:8
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- 1 Samuel 21:13
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
- 1 Samuel 25:33
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
- Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
- Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- Proverbs 11:22
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
- Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
- Jeremiah 48:11
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Jonah 3:7
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: