Occurrences
Chêk occurs 18 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (7), Psalms (2), Proverbs (3), Song of Songs (3), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1)
- Job 6:30 — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste (חִ֝כִּ֗י) discern perverse things?
- Job 12:11 — Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth (וְ֝חֵ֗ךְ) taste his meat?
- Job 20:13 — Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth (חִכּֽוֹ):
- Job 29:10 — The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth (לְחִכָּ֥ם).
- Job 31:30 — Neither have I suffered my mouth (חִכִּ֑י) to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- Job 33:2 — Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth (בְחִכִּֽי).
- Job 34:3 — For the ear trieth words, as the mouth (וְ֝חֵ֗ךְ) tasteth meat.
- Psalms 119:103 — How sweet are thy words unto my taste (לְ֭חִכִּי)! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- Psalms 137:6 — If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth (לְחִכִּי֮); if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- Proverbs 5:3 — For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth (חִכָּֽהּ) is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 8:7 — For my mouth (חִכִּ֑י) shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- Proverbs 24:13 — My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste (חִכֶּֽךָ):
- Song of Songs 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 fruit was sweet to my taste (לְחִכִּֽי).
- Song of Songs 5:16 — His mouth (חִכּוֹ֙) is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
- Song of Songs 7:9 — And the roof of thy mouth (וְחִכֵּ֕ךְ) like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
- Lamentations 4:4 — The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth (חכּ֖וֹ) for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
- Ezekiel 3:26 — And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth (חִכֶּ֔ךָ), that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
- Hosea 8:1 — Set the trumpet to thy mouth (חִכְּךָ֣). He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.