'Taste' in the Bible

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

The house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was still day; but David vowed, saying, “May God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down.”

I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

“Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

O taste and see that the Lord is good;How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

How sweet are Your words to my taste!Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Those who linger long over wine,Those who go to taste mixed wine.

My son, eat honey, for it is good,Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;

“Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest,So is my beloved among the young men.In his shade I took great delight and sat down,And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water.

“Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

And Jesus was saying to them, “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner.’”

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’

They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.