Bible word study

Teem (Strong’s H2942): Meaning in the Bible

Teem (טְעֵם) is the Aramaic word numbered H2942 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively). In the King James Bible it is translated chancellor, command, commandment, decree, regard.

• Original wordטְעֵם
• Transliterationṭᵉʻêm
• Pronunciationteh-ame'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH2942
• LanguageAramaic

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. (Aramaic) from H2939, and equivalent to H2941;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Teem appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Teem (H2942) stands behind 18 English renderings in 18 verses across 2 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezra (11), Daniel (7).

How the King James Bible renders Teem, by count

• decree13 of 18 (72 percent)
• commandment2 of 18 (11 percent)
• regarded1 of 18 (6 percent)
• tasted1 of 18 (6 percent)
• wisdom1 of 18 (6 percent)

Three places to read Teem

• Ezra 4:21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
• Ezra 6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
• Daniel 3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Teem in the original Aramaic lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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