Strong's #4985: mathaq (pronounced maw-thak')

a primitive root; to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet:--be (made, X take) sweet.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâthaq

1) to be or become sweet or pleasing

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be or become sweet

1a2) to be or become pleasant

1a3) to suck

1b) (Hiphil) to give sweet taste

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Exodus 15:25: "into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance,"
Job 20:12: "Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;"
Job 21:33: "The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable"
Psalms 55:14: " We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company."
Proverbs 9:17: "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."