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מֶתֶק

me.teq

sweetness

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Strong’s H4986Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

sweetness of1

the sweetness of1

In the text

Proverbs 16:21וּמֶתֶק
The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant speech promotes instruction.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֶ֫תֶק n.m. sweetness

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.