טְעַם
ṭᵉʻam · H2939 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to feed
Causative action by which humans give animals food to eat
ExamplesDaniel 4:25 that you be driven away from mankind and your dwelling place be with the animals of the field, and you be given grass to eat like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven; and seven periods of time will pass over you, until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.
Daniel 4:32 and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the animals of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.’
Daniel 5:21 “He was also driven away from mankind, and his heart was made like that of animals, and his dwelling place was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind, and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 3
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֶשֶׂבgrass 2
- וֹhim 1
Second objectAs in “call him Lord”
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֶשֶׂבgrass 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as+ תּוֹרdove 3
- לto/for+ ךָּyou 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ψωμίζω psōmízō · G5595 · to feed, to give to eat, to give away
- Greek verb meaning 'to feed, give food to,' used causatively like the target טְעַם (ṭᵉʻam, H2939) which means 'to make to eat, feed.' Both refer to the causative action of providing food to someone.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Taste002004001008
- This Taste code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the Hebrew form (טָעַם (ṭâʻam, H2938)), whose “to taste” sense is well attested; this word's own occurrence describes being given grass to eat, never a discerning act of tasting.
- Ingest002001001025
- Daniel 5:21 recounts that Nebuchadnezzar “was given grass to eat like cattle.”
- Know002004002007
- This Know code is likewise inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's idiomatic “to taste > perceive” sense; this word's own occurrence describes literal eating of grass, never perceiving or understanding.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2939. teem [טְעֵם] verb Pa`el feed (Pe`al properly taste, see Biblical Hebrew); —…
[טְעֵם] verb Pa`el feed (Pe`al properly taste, see Biblical Hebrew); — Imperfect3masculine plural, accusative of grass + ל person: יְמַעְ֑מוּן Dan 4:22; Dan 4:29, so (suffix person) יְטַעֲמוּנֵהּ Dan 5:21.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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