Bible Dictionary: Relish

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To savor; to taste with pleasure; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.

2. (v. t.) To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.

3. (v. i.) To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.

4. (n.) A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

5. (n.) Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.

6. (n.) A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.

7. (n.) That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.

8. (n.) The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

Greek

4371. prosphagion -- a relish (eaten with bread), spec. fish
... 4370, 4371. prosphagion. 4372 . a relish (eaten with bread), spec. ... Word Origin
from pros and phagomai Definition a relish (eaten with bread), spec. ...
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3795. opsarion -- fish
... fish. Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of optos; a relish to other food
(as if cooked sauce), ie (specially), fish (presumably salted and dried as a ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4985. mathoq -- to become or be sweet or pleasant
... be made, take sweet. A primitive root; to suck, by implication, to relish, or
(intransitively) be sweet -- be (made, X take) sweet. 4984, 4985. mathoq. 4986 ...
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Library

Regeneration.
... the sensibility. Moral depravity, according to this school, consists in
a constitutional relish, taste, or craving for sin. They ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxviii regeneration.htm

Devotion to God.
... There is implanted in it both a desire to grow and a relish for the things necessary
to its growth. Thus the entire process of development is a delight. ...
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Wesley's Likes and Dislikes
... I never relish a tune at first hearing, not till I have almost learned to sing it;
and as I learn it more perfectly, I gradually lose my relish for it. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesleys likes and dislikes.htm

"For they that are after the Flesh do Mind,"
... the flesh is flesh." Every man as he comes out of the womb, is degenerated and fallen
down into this brutish estate, to mind, to savour, to relish nothing but ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xviii for they that.htm

Shewing Wherein all Saving Grace Does Summarily Consist"
... 'Tis the soul's relish of the supreme excellency of the Divine nature, inclining
the heart to God as the chief good. The first thing ...
/.../edwards/treatise on grace/shewing wherein all saving grace.htm

Devotional Reading.
... As a rule, those who have a taste for spiritual books and gratify that taste prosper
in the Lord, while those who have no relish for such books labor at a ...
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On the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Ghost
... A. We receive the gift of wisdom to give us a relish for the things of God and to
direct our whole life and all our actions to His honor and glory. ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 16 on the gifts.htm

The Means of Obtaining Peace Internal, is not the Delight of Sense ...
... Thou wilt scarce begin to relish the sweetness of Divine Love in Prayer, but the
Enemy with his deceitful Craftiness will be kindling in thy Heart desires of ...
/.../the spiritual guide which disentangles the soul/chap iii the means of.htm

Of Various Degrees of this Repose, and How it is to be Preserved.
... And there are yet others who are not content to be content unless they feel, see,
and relish their contentment; these are like to persons who being well ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter x of various degrees.htm

Of the Origin and Character of Each of These Faults.
... passion in us we can recognize them by this; viz., if we are kept to dine by one
of the brethren we are not content to eat our food with the relish which he ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xi of the origin.htm

Thesaurus

Relish (1 Occurrence)
... to taste with pleasure; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be
pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. ...
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Taste (46 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of
(anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively. ...
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Gust (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) A sudden violent burst of passion. 3. (n.) The sense or pleasure of
tasting; relish; gusto. ... 6. (vt) To taste; to have a relish for. ...
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Palate (15 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion
that the palate is the organ of taste. 3. (n.) Fig.: Mental ...
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Season (101 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) That which gives relish; seasoning. ... 8. (vt) To fit for taste; to render
palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food. ...
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Savor (51 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste
and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ...
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Religious (13 Occurrences)

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Quaff (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to
swallow in large draughts. 2. (vi) To drink largely or luxuriously. ...
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Lose (59 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of;
as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health. ...
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Weary (77 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; --
with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary ...
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Bible Concordance

Relish (1 Occurrence)

Hosea 4:8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Relish

Related Terms

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Gust (1 Occurrence)

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