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Delicacy

מַעֲדָןStrong’s H4574

maadan (ma-a-dan)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Maadan is the Hebrew word usually translated “delicacies of”, “delights” and “delicacies”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.”
Genesis 49:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Dainty (food), delight
How it's translated
  • delicacies of 1
  • delights 1
  • delicacies 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • Proverbs 1
  • Lamentations 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַעֲדָן maadan · delicacy

dainty (food), delight

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

DELICACY, noun

In a general sense, that which delights or pleases. Hence,

  1. Fineness of texture; smoothness; softness; tenderness; as the delicacy of the skin; and nearly in the same sense, applicable to food; as the delicacy of flesh, meat or vegetables.
  2. Daintiness; pleasantness to the taste.
  3. Elegant or feminine beauty; as delicacy of form.
  4. Nicety; minute accuracy; as the delicacy of coloring in painting.
All definitions
  1. Neatness in dress; elegance proceeding from a nice selection and adjustment of the several parts of dress.
  2. Softness of manners; civility or politemess proceeding from a nice observance of propriety, and a desire to please; as delicacy of behavior.
  3. Indulgence; gentle treatment; as delicacy of education.
  4. Tenderness; scrupulousness; the quality manifested in nice attention to right, and care to avoid wrong, or offense.
  5. Acute or nice perception of what is pleasing to the sense of tasting; hence figuratively, a nice perception of beauty and deformity, or the faculty of such nice perception.
  6. That which delights the senses, particularly the taste; applied to eatables; as, the peach is a great delicacy
  7. Tenderness of constitution; weakness; that quality or state of the animal body which renders it very impressible to injury; as delicacy of constitution or frame.
  8. Smallness; fineness; slenderness; tenuity; as the delicacy of a thread, or fiber.
  9. Tenderness; nice susceptibility of impression; as delicacy of feeling.

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.