# H2441 חֵךְ

חֵךְ (chêk), Strong’s H2441: properly, the palate or inside of the mouth; hence, the mouth itself (as the organ of speech, taste and kissing) KJV: (roof of the) mouth, taste.. Occurs 18 times.

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

KJV: (roof of the) mouth, taste.

Derived from [חָנַךְ chânak](https://besorah.bible/word/H2596) (to narrow)

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֵךְ n.m. palate, roof of mouth, gums

## Where it occurs
- [Ezekiel 3:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/3?v=26) — I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and will not be able to correct them…
- [Hosea 8:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/8?v=1) — “Put the shofar to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD’s house, because they have broken my covenant…
- [Psalms 119:103](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/119?v=103) — How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
- [Psalms 137:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/137?v=6) — Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- [Proverbs 5:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/5?v=3) — For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
- [Proverbs 8:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/8?v=7) — For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- [Proverbs 24:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/24?v=13) — My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
- [Job 6:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/6?v=30) — Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
- [Job 12:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/12?v=11) — Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
- [Job 20:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/20?v=13) — though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,