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To taste

γεύωStrong’s G1089

geuō

Appears in 15 verses of the New Testament

In short

Geuō is the Greek word usually translated “having tasted”, “may taste” and “eat”. It appears in 15 verses of the New Testament.

“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.”
Matthew 16:28 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “having tasted”, “may taste” and “eat”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • having tasted 3
  • may taste 2
  • to eat 2
  • shall taste 1
  • will taste 1
  • tasted 1
  • shall he taste 1
  • having eaten 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 3
  • Hebrews 3
  • Matthew 2
  • Luke 2
  • John 2
  • Mark 1

8 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 15 verses, by book
Matthew 2
16:2827:34
Mark 1
9:1
Luke 2
9:2714:24
John 2
2:98:52
Colossians 1
2:21
Hebrews 3
2:96:46:5
1 Peter 1
2:3
Greek dictionary

γεύω geuō · to taste

γεύω, γεύομαι, [in LXX chiefly for טעם ;] to make to taste. Mid., to taste eat: absol., Act.10:10 20:11, Col.2:21; with genitive, Mat.27:34, Luk.14:24, Act.23:14; with accusative (not cl., but see Westc, Heb., l.with; M, Pr., 66, 245), Jhn.2:9. Metaphorical, Heb.6:4; ῥῆμα θεοῦ, Heb.6:5 (on case, see supr., and cf. Milligan, NTD, 68) θανάτου (cf. Talmudic טַעַם מִיתָה), Mat.16:28, Mrk.9:1, Luk.9:27, Jhn.8:52, Heb.2:9; before ὅτι, 1Pe.2:3 (Cremer, 148).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “taste” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

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 14:29
  4. To essay first.
All definitions and other forms of “taste”
  1. To have pleasure from.
  2. To experience; to feel; to undergo.“That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man” Hebrews 2:9
  3. To relish intellectually; to enjoy.
  4. To experience by shedding, as blood.

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.
  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.
  5. To experience; to have perception of.
  6. To take to be enjoyed.
  7. To enjoy sparingly.
  8. To have the experience or enjoyment of.

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.
  3. Intellectual relish; as, he had no taste of true glory.
  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.
  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). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.