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Taste

טַ֫עַםStrong’s H2940

taam (ta-am)

Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Taam is the Hebrew word usually translated “discernment”, “taste its” and “sense his”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.

“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.”
Exodus 16:31 KJV
Meaning
  1. Taste, judgmenttaste · judgment (fig.) · decision, decree
How it's translated
  • discernment 3
  • taste its 2
  • sense his 2
  • and taste its 1
  • like taste of 1
  • discernment your 1
  • taste 1
  • and discernment of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 2
  • Job 2
  • Psalms 2
  • Proverbs 2
  • Exodus 1
  • Numbers 1

8 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 12 verses, by book
Exodus 1
16:31
Numbers 1
11:8
1 Samuel 2
21:1325:33
Psalms 2
34:1119:66
Proverbs 2
11:2226:16
Jeremiah 1
48:11
Jonah 1
3:7
Hebrew dictionary

טַ֫עַם taam · taste

1) taste, judgment 1a) taste 1b) judgment (fig.) 1c) decision, decree

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.