chech · palate, mouth

What it means

chech (חֵךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “palate, mouth”.

The palate, the inside of the mouth; the mouth as the organ of taste and of speech.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The roof of the mouth, used in tasting and speaking.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• palate ×16
• mouth ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×7
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Song of Songs×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Job 6:30

  Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamities?

• Job 12:11

  Does not the ear test words, as the palate tastes food?

• Job 20:13

  though he has compassion on it and does not let it go, and holds it back in the middle of his palate,

• Job 29:10

  the voice of the leaders was hidden, and their tongue to their palate stuck.

• Job 31:30

  —and I did not let my palate sin by asking for his life with an imprecation—

• Job 33:2

  Look, please, I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my palate.

• Job 34:3

  For the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

• Psalms 119:103

  How sweet is your saying to my palate, more than honey to my mouth!

• Psalms 137:6

  May my tongue cling to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.

• Proverbs 5:3

  For the lips of the strange woman drip honey from the comb, and smoother than oil is her palate;

• Proverbs 8:7

  For my palate will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

• Proverbs 24:13

  Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

• Song of Songs 2:3

  Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the boys; in his shade I delighted and sat, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

• Song of Songs 5:16

  His palate is sweetness, and all of him desirable. This is my beloved, and this is my companion, daughters of Jerusalem.

• Song of Songs 7:9

  and your palate like the good wine that goes to my beloved smoothly, that makes the lips of sleepers speak.

• Lamentations 4:4

  The tongue of the nursing infant clings to its palate from thirst; little children ask for bread; there is no one to break it for them.

• Ezekiel 3:26

  And your tongue I will make cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be mute, and you will not be to them a man who reproves, for they are a rebellious house.

• Hosea 8:1

  To your mouth the horn! Like an eagle one comes against the house of YHWH, because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law they have rebelled.