'Taste' in the Bible
And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.
And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey.
The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of oil-cakes.
And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or aught else till the sun be down!
I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him!
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste:
As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and hath settled on his lees; he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;