Proverbs 11:22:8Prov.11.22.W8TAB
טָֽעַם׃
taam
“taste or discretion”
- Transliteration
- TA-am
- Extended
- TAA-ahm
- IPA
- /ˈtˤaː.ʕam/
Meaning by language
- English
- taste or discretion
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
TA-am
- phraseyour reading level
ve-sa-RAT TA-am
- clause
i-SHA ya-FA ve-sa-RAT TA-am
- sentence
NE-zem za-HAV be-AF kha-ZIR i-SHA ya-FA ve-sa-RAT TA-am
Exegesis
The Hebrew clause is a verbless comparative built on two parallel construct chains: nezem zahav be’af khazir {נֶזֶם זָהָב בְּאַף חֲזִיר | neẓem zahāv bə-ʾap̄ ḥăẓîr} ‘ring of gold in a pig’s snout’ and ishah yafah ve-sarat ta’am {אִשָּׁה יָפָה וְסָרַת טָעַם | ’iššāh yāp̄āh wə-sā-raṯ ṭā‛am} ‘a beautiful woman, turned aside from discretion.’
The participial verb sarat {סָ֣רַת | sāraṯ} attaches via the conjunction vav {וְ | wə} to ta’am {טָֽעַם | ṭā‛am}, indicating ongoing lack of discernment. English renders this as a correlative simile (“Like X…so is Y”) to preserve the Hebrew parallelism and contrast.
Root and etymology
Roottet–ayin–mem
“taste, discernment”
In context — Proverbs 11:22
Like a ring of gold in a pig’s snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 11:22:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Proverbs 11:22, so the Hebrew word טָֽעַם׃ (taam) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Prov.11.22.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.11.22.W8.S1) and character.