'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.