KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Pleasing to the taste or smell. Sense 2: Pleasant, agreeable, or delightful to the senses or mind.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 8:21
Complete exact-word concordance
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soule: but it is abomination to fooles to depart from euill.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pleasant words are as an honycombe, sweete to the soule, and health to the bones.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with grauell.
1611 marginal noteHeb. bread of lying, or falshood.
1611 marginal noteCha.9.17.
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
The morsell which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomite vp, and loose thy sweete words.
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
My sonne, eate thou honie, because it is good, and the honie combe, which is sweete to thy taste.
1611 marginal noteHeb. vpon thy palate.
1611 marginal notePsal.19.9. & 119.103.
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
The full soule loatheth an honie combe: but to the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.
1611 marginal noteHeb. treadeth vnder foote.
1611 marginal noteIob 6.7.
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe.
¶ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
¶ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing is it for the eyes to behold the sunne.
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.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloued among the sonnes. I sate downe vnder his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweete to my taste.
1611 marginal noteHeb. I delighted and sate downe, &c.
1611 marginal noteHeb. palate
¶ O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
¶ O my doue! that art in the clefts of the rocke, in the secret places of the staires: let me see thy countenance, let me heare thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
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