To luxuriate
עָדַןStrong’s H5727adan (a-dan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Adan is the Hebrew word usually translated “luxuriated”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.”
Meaning
- (Hithpael) to luxuriate, delight oneself
How it's translated
- and they luxuriated 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָדַן adan · to luxuriate
(Hithpael) to luxuriate, delight oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “luxuriate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LUXU'RIATE, verb intransitive
To grow exuberantly, or to grow to superfluous abundance.
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.