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Tender

ἁπαλόςStrong’s G0527

hapalos

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hapalos is the Greek word usually translated “tender”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:”
Matthew 24:32 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “tender”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • tender 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1
  • Mark 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἁπαλός hapalos · tender

ἀπαλός, -ή, -όν [in LXX for רַךְ ;] tender: Mat.24:32, Mrk.13:28.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “tender” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TEND'ER, noun

[from tend.]

One that attends or takes care of; a nurse.

  1. A small vessel employed to attend a larger one for supplying her with provisions and other stores, or to convey intelligence and the like.
  2. In law, an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture which would be incurred by non-payment or non-performance; as the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note or bond with interest.
  3. Any offer for acceptance.
  4. The thing offered.
All definitions and other forms of “tender”
  1. Regard; kind concern. [Not in use.]

TEND'ER, verb transitive

[Latin tendo.]

  1. To offer in words; or to exhibit or present for acceptance.
  2. To hold; to esteem.
  3. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, for saving a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

TEN'DER, adjective

[Latin tener; allied probably to thin, Latin tenuis.]

  1. Soft; easily impressed, broken, bruised or injured; not firm or hard; as tender plants; tender flesh; tender grapes. Deuteronomy 32:2Song of Solomon 2:13
  2. Very sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
  3. Delicate; effeminate; not hardy or able to endure hardship.“The tender and delicate woman among you” Deuteronomy 28:56
  4. Weak; feeble; as tender age. Genesis 33:13
  5. Young and carefully educated.
  6. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; easily affected by the distresses of another, or anxious for another's good; as the tender kindness of the church; a tender heart.
  7. Compassionate; easily excited to pity, forgiveness or favor.“The Lord is pitiful, and of tender mercy” James 5:11
  8. Exciting kind concern.
  9. Expressive of the softer passions; as a tender strain.
  10. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; with of.
  11. Gentle; mild; unwilling to pain.
  12. Apt to give pain; as, that is a tender subject; things that are tender and unpleasing.
  13. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; pathetic; as tender expressions; tender expostulations.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.