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טְעַם ṭᵉʻam — to taste

pronounced teh-am' · Strong's H2939 · 3 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 1 stem: Pa'el

Translated in the KJV as make to eat, feed.

(Aramaic) corresponding to H2938; to taste; causatively to feed.

ṭᵉʻam in each stem

Pa'el

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 3

יְטַֽעֲמ֗וּן Dan 4:22 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. (KJV)

יְטַעֲמ֔וּן Dan 4:29 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. (KJV)

יְטַ֣עֲמוּנֵּ֔הּ Dan 5:21 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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