מַנְעַם
manʻam · H4516 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dainties, delicacies
Food with qualities that inspire appreciation, used figuratively to denote the prosperity of evil people
ExamplesPsalm 141:4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness With people who do wrong; And may I not taste their delicacies.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- מַעֲדָן maʻădân · H4574 · delicacies, delight
- Hebrew noun denoting delicacies or choice foods; semantically very close to מַנְעַם as both refer to luxurious or delicate foods
- מַטְעַם maṭʻam · H4303 · tasty food, delicacy
- Hebrew plural noun (from טָעַם 'taste') denoting tasty foods or delicacies; refers to pleasant, choice foods similar to the sense of מַנְעַם
In the other Testament 1 word
- τρυφή tryphḗ · G5172 · to revel, to carouse, to live a life of luxury
- Greek noun denoting luxurious living, delicacies, or sumptuous fare; a direct translation equivalent for the sense of 'dainty' as delicate/luxurious food
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Food001003001003
- מַנְעַם denotes a dainty or delicacy, a choice item of food.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4516. manammim [מַנְעַמִּים] noun [masculine] plural delicacies, dainities; — only…
[מַנְעַמִּים] noun [masculine] plural delicacies, dainities; — only suffix בְּמַנְעַמֵּיהֶם וּבַלאֶֿלְחַם Psa 141:4.
II. נעם (perhaps to be assumed as √ of following, NeMarg. 10; Arabic speak in a low, Gentle voice, note, melody; Syriac rugivit, gentle sound, note; Late Hebrew נְלִימָה melody; Ecclus 45:9 נעימה לתת to make music; compare Hiph`il Ecclesiasticus 47:9b margin).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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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