מָתַק mâthaq — to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet
Translated in the KJV as be (made, × take) sweet.
a primitive root; to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet.
mâthaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›