Bible Dictionary: Palate

Bible > Dictionary > Palate

◄ Palate ►

Jump to: Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The roof of the mouth; the organ for tasting.

2. (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

3. (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

4. (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

5. (v. t.) To perceive by the taste.

Strong's Hebrew

2441. chek -- palate, roof of the mouth, gums
... 2440, 2441. chek. 2442 . palate, roof of the mouth, gums. Transliteration:
chek Phonetic Spelling: (khake) Short Definition: mouth. ...
/hebrew/2441.htm - 6k

Library

May the Fourth a Healthy Palate
... MAY The Fourth A HEALTHY PALATE. "How sweet are Thy words unto my taste."
"Psalm 119:97-104. Some ... sickly. It is all a matter of palate. ...
/.../jowett/my daily meditation for the circling year/may the fourth a healthy.htm

How Our First Struggle must be against the Spirit of Gluttony, IE ...
... Prolegomena. Chapter III. How our first struggle must be against the spirit
of gluttony, ie the pleasures of the palate. And so ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter iii how our first.htm

For what Reason the Worshippers of Janus have Made his Image with ...
... they say that it has two faces, one before and one behind, because our gaping mouths
seem to resemble the world: whence the Greeks call the palate ouranos, and ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 8 for what reason the.htm

Whether Chastity is a Distinct virtue from Abstinence?
... Therefore, since pleasures of the palate which are the matter of abstinence, and
venereal pleasures which are the matter of chastity, pertain to the touch, it ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether chastity is a distinct.htm

Pronunciation.
... PRONUNCIATION. ` When before k, sound the letter by pressing the back of the tongue
against the soft palate, and expelling the letter with a clicking sound. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/various/indian methodist hymn-book/pronunciation.htm

Of the Outer Limbs of Man, and their Use.
... and is the interpreter of the mind, cannot, however, by itself alone fulfil the
office of speaking, unless it strikes its edge against the palate, unless aided ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap x of the outer limbs.htm

Disclosure of the Monstrous Tenets of the Manichæans.
... taken from them. Are they not ashamed to attribute the finding of God to
the nose and the palate? But I pass from this. For I will ...
/.../chapter 16 name of the 2.htm

Argument. --But, on the Ground that Liberty in Meats is Granted to ...
... even the poor blessed, and the hungering and thirsting happy, the rich miserable;
to whom, obeying the government of their belly and their palate, the material ...
/.../novatian/on the jewish meats/chapter vi argument but on the.htm

Whether the Godhead Can be Seen by the Wicked Without Joy?
... object. Now in the senses, "to the unhealthy palate bread is painful,
to the healthy palate sweet," as Augustine says (Confess. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the godhead can be.htm

Of the Conformity of Our Will to that Will of God's which is ...
... Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz . . . . . How sweet
are thy words to my palate, more than honey to my mouth. [361]. ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter v of the conformity.htm

Thesaurus

Palate (15 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion
that the palate is the organ of taste. ...Palate (15 Occurrences). ...
/p/palate.htm - 10k

Flavor (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies
the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink. ...
/f/flavor.htm - 7k

Tastes (7 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Job 12:11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? ...
(WEB). Job 34:3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. ...
/t/tastes.htm - 8k

Try (84 Occurrences)
... Job 12:11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? ... (See NAS).
Job 34:3 For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat. (YLT). ...
/t/try.htm - 31k

Tongue (160 Occurrences)
... Job 12:11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? (See NIV). ...
Job 34:3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. (See NIV). ...
/t/tongue.htm - 42k

Narrow (21 Occurrences)
... 8. (superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue
in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the ...
/n/narrow.htm - 14k

Low (216 Occurrences)
... note. 14. (superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the
tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). See ...
/l/low.htm - 39k

Gratification (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite;
as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses ...
/g/gratification.htm - 7k

Grateful (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as,
a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep. ...
/g/grateful.htm - 7k

Bible Concordance

Palate (15 Occurrences)

Job 6:30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
(YLT NAS)

Job 12:11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Job 20:13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
(YLT)

Job 29:10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
(DBY YLT NAS)

Job 33:2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth, my tongue speaketh in my palate,
(DBY YLT)

Job 34:3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.
(DBY)

Psalms 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
(See JPS YLT)

Psalms 137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
(DBY YLT)

Proverbs 8:7 For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
(DBY)

Proverbs 24:13 Eat my son, honey that 'is' good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.
(YLT)

Song of Songs 2:3 As a citron among trees of the forest, So 'is' my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit 'is' sweet to my palate.
(YLT)

Song of Songs 7:9 And thy palate as the good wine --' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!
(YLT)

Lamentations 4:4 Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 3:26 and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house 'are' they.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Palate

Related Terms

Flavor (2 Occurrences)

Tastes (7 Occurrences)

Try (84 Occurrences)

Tongue (160 Occurrences)

Narrow (21 Occurrences)

Low (216 Occurrences)

Gratification (2 Occurrences)

Grateful (4 Occurrences)

Infant (14 Occurrences)