Exodus 16:31
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
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Taste
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Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
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γεύομαι
geúomai · ghyoo'-om-ahee
7 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to taste; by implication, to eat; figuratively, to experience (good or ill)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eat, taste.
Strong's first: Matthew 16:28Strong's last: Hebrews 2:9
Open full G1089 profile →טָעַם
ṭâʻam · taw-am'
6 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to taste; figuratively, to perceive
Strong's KJV usage: × but, perceive, taste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 14:43Strong's last: Jonah 3:7
Open full H2938 profile →טַעַם
ṭaʻam · tah'-am
5 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
Strong's KJV usage: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 16:31Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:11
Open full H2940 profile →חֵךְ
chêk · khake
4 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
properly, the palate or inside of the mouth; hence, the mouth itself (as the organ of speech, taste and kissing)
Strong's KJV usage: (roof of the) mouth, taste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 6:30Strong's last: Song of Solomon 2:3
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H2940
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
H2940
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
H2940
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
H2938
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
H2938
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
H2938
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
H2940
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
H2441
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
H2938
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
H2938
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
H2441
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
H2441
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
H2441
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
H2940
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
H2938
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
G1089
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
G1089
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
G1089
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
G1089
For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
G1089
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
G1089
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
G1089
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
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taste
TASTE, verb transitive
1. To perceive by means of the tongue; to have a certain sensation in consequence of something applied to the tongue, the organ of taste; as, to taste bread; to taste wine; to taste a sweet or an acid.
2. To try the relish of by the perception of the organs of taste
3. To try by eating a little; or to eat a little.
Because I tasted a little of this honey. 1 Samuel 14:43.
4. To essay first.
5. To have pleasure from.
6. To experience; to feel; to undergo.
That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9.
7. To relish intellectually; to enjoy.
Thou, Adam, wilt taste no pleasure.
8. To experience by shedding, as blood.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
TASTE, verb intransitive To try by the mouth; to eat or drink; or to eat or drink a little only; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
1. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the quality or flavor is distinguished; as, butter tastes of garlic; apples boiled in a brass-kettle, sometimes taste of brass.
2. To distinguish intellectually.
Scholars, when good sense describing,
Call it tasting and imbibing.
3. To try the relish of any thing. taste of the fruits; taste for yourself.
4. To be tinctured; to have a particular quality or character.
Ev'ry idle, nice and wanton reason
Shall, to the king, taste of this action.
5. To experience; to have perception of.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
6. To take to be enjoyed.
Of nature's bounty men forbore to taste
7. To enjoy sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
8. To have the experience or enjoyment of.
They who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and the good word of God. Hebrews 6:4.
TASTE, noun The act of tasting; gustation.
1. A particular sensation excited in an animal by the application of a substance to the tongue, the proper organ; as the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste
2. The sense by which we perceive the relish of a thing. This sense appears to reside in the tongue or its papillae. Men have a great variety of tastes. In the influenza of 1790, the taste for some days, was entirely extinguished.
3. Intellectual relish; as, he had no taste of true glory.
I have no taste
Of popular applause.
[Note. In this use, the word is now followed by for. 'He had no taste for glory.' When followed by of, the sense is ambiguous, or rather it denotes experience, trial.]
4. Judgment; discernment; nice perception, or the power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles lettres. taste is not wholly the gift of nature, nor wholly the effect of art. It depends much on culture. We say, a good taste or a fine taste
5. Style; manner, with respect to what is pleasing; as a poem or music composed in good taste
6. Essay; trial; experiment. [Not in use.]
7. A small portion given as a specimen.
8. A bit; a little piece tasted or eaten.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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