# חֵךְ (chekhe)

Israeli respelling: che-khe. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2441. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, the palate or inside of the mouth; hence, the mouth itself (as the organ of speech, taste and kissing)

King James renderings: (roof of the) mouth, taste.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chekhe-h2441

## Occurrences

- [Job 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/30) — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- [Job 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/11) — Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
- [Job 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/13) — Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- [Job 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/10) — The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- [Job 31:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/30) — Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- [Job 33:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/2) — Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
- [Job 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/3) — For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
- [Psalms 119:103](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/103) — How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- [Psalms 137:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/137/6) — If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- [Proverbs 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/3) — For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- [Proverbs 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/7) — For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- [Proverbs 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/13) — My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
- [Song of Solomon 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/3) — As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fru…
- [Song of Solomon 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/16) — His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
- [Song of Solomon 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/7/9) — And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
- [Lamentations 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/4) — The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto the…
- [Ezekiel 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/26) — And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a re…
- [Hosea 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/8/1) — Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and tres…