Lexical Summary maadan or maadannah: a dainty (food), delight Original Word: מַעֲדָןTransliteration: maadan or maadannah Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ad-awn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a dainty (food), delight Meaning: a dainty (food), delight Strong's Concordance dainty, delicately, delight Or (feminine) maadannah {mah-ad-an-naw'}; from adan; a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully) -- dainty, delicately, delight. see HEBREW adan Brown-Driver-Briggs H4574. maadan or maadannah [מַעֲדָן] noun [masculine] dainty (food), delight only plural; — מֶלָךְ מַעֲדַגֵּי Genesis 49:20 royal dainties; לְמַעֲדַנִּים הָאֹכְלִים Lamentations 4:5 those who ate (according to dainties) daintily; more Generally לְנַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ מַעֲדַנִּים וְיִתֵּן Proverbs 29:17 he shall give delight to thy soul ("" וִינִידֶ֑ךָ). — מַעֲדַנּוֺת, also below ענד. II. עדן (√ of following; compare perhaps Assyrian edinu, plain (in word-lists), SchrCot Genesis 2:8, DlPa 79 f.; other views see Di2:8). |
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