Palate
חֵךְStrong’s H2441chekh
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “palate my”, “mouth his” and “palate your”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?”
Meaning
- Mouth, palate, taste, gums
How it's translated
- palate my 3
- to palate my 3
- mouth his 2
- palate your 2
- and a palate 1
- to palate their 1
- on palate my 1
- and palate 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- Proverbs 3
- Song of Solomon 3
- Psalms 2
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 12:11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
- Job 20:13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- Job 29:10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- Job 31:30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- Job 33:2Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
- Job 34:3For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Hebrew dictionary
חֵךְ chekh · palate
mouth, palate, taste, gums
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “palate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAL'ATE, noun
[Latin palatum, properly the arch or cope of heaven.]
- The roof or upper part of the mouth.
- Taste.
- Mental relish; intellectual taste.
All definitions and other forms of “palate”
PAL'ATE, verb transitive
To perceive by the taste. [Not used.]
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.