ma.taq describes something becoming or being experienced as sweet, including water, food, evil in the mouth, and torrent clods.

The attested use describes sweetness or becoming sweet in concrete and figurative settings: water becomes sweet in Exodus 15:25, while Job 20:12, Job 21:33, and Proverbs 9:17 place it with what is sweet to a person or in the mouth; Psalm 55:15 has a Hiphil form, though the supplied APB wording does not isolate its contribution.

1. Being or becoming sweet · dominant

   The Qal sequential imperfect in Exodus 15:25 occurs after a tree is thrown into water; the APB renders the result, “the water became sweet.” In Job 20:12, the Hiphil imperfect is set in the clause about evil being sweet in his mouth, while the Qal forms in Job 21:33 and Proverbs 9:17 occur where the APB renders torrent clods and stolen water as “sweet.” Psalm 55:15 also has a Hiphil imperfect form, but the supplied APB rendering does not make the term's specific contribution clear.

   Exodus 15:25Job 20:12Job 21:33Proverbs 9:17Psalm 55:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “sweet” for the water in Exodus 15:25, evil in Job 20:12, torrent clods in Job 21:33, and stolen water in Proverbs 9:17. Its wording for Psalm 55:15 does not visibly reflect the listed form.