Lexical Summary ma'adannah: bonds, bands Original Word: מַעֲדַנָּהTransliteration: ma'adannah Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ad-an-naw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: bonds, bands Meaning: a bond, group Strong's Concordance influence By transitive from anad; a bond, i.e. Group -- influence. see HEBREW anad Brown-Driver-Briggs H4575. ma 'adannah מַעֲדַנּוֺת noun [feminine] plural Job 38:31 see below ענד; מַעֲדַנֹּת 1 Samuel 15:32 is dubious; = above, as adverb accusative in bonds, fetters, Ki Gr Klo; ᵑ7 Symm Dr assign to √ עדן = delicately, voluptuously; but ᵐ5 τρέμων, whence LagProph. Chald. li proposes מְעֹדַנִּת (compare אֲחֹרַנִּית) √ מעד = totteringly, so HPS. מַעְדֵּר see עדר. מעה (√ of following; meaning dubious). מַעֲדַנּוֺת noun feminine plural bonds, bands; so apparently מ ׳הַתְקַשֵּׁר כִּימָה Job 38:31 (by metath. or error from √ ענד, see Di Bu). — 1 Samuel 15:32 see ׳מ above |