Delicacy
עֵ֫דֶןStrong’s H5730eden (e-den)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eden is the Hebrew word usually translated “pleasure”, “luxuries” and “delights your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Meaning
- Luxury, dainty, delight, finery
- Delight
How it's translated
- pleasure 1
- luxuries 1
- delights your 1
- from delicacies my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 1:24Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
- Psalms 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
Hebrew dictionary
עֵ֫דֶן eden · delicacy
luxury, dainty, delight, finery
עֶדְנָה ednah · delight
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,
- 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.
- Daintiness; pleasantness to the taste.
- Elegant or feminine beauty; as delicacy of form.
- Nicety; minute accuracy; as the delicacy of coloring in painting.
All definitions
- Neatness in dress; elegance proceeding from a nice selection and adjustment of the several parts of dress.
- Softness of manners; civility or politemess proceeding from a nice observance of propriety, and a desire to please; as delicacy of behavior.
- Indulgence; gentle treatment; as delicacy of education.
- Tenderness; scrupulousness; the quality manifested in nice attention to right, and care to avoid wrong, or offense.
- 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.
- That which delights the senses, particularly the taste; applied to eatables; as, the peach is a great delicacy
- 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.
- Smallness; fineness; slenderness; tenuity; as the delicacy of a thread, or fiber.
- 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.