Delight
עֹ֫נֶגStrong’s H6027oneg (o-neg)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oneg is the Hebrew word usually translated “delight”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.”
Meaning
- Exquisite delight, daintiness, delight, pleasantness
How it's translated
- delight 1
- a delight 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹ֫נֶג oneg · delight
exquisite delight, daintiness, delight, pleasantness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “delight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELIGHT, noun
- A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.“His delight is in the law of the Lord” Psalms 1:2
- That which gives great pleasure; that which affords delight“I was daily his delight” Proverbs 8:30
All definitions and other forms of “delight”
DELIGHT, verb transitive
- To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear; the good conduct of children, and especially their piety, delights their parents.“I will delight myself in thy statutes. 19” Psalms 119:16
- To receive great pleasure in.“I delight to do thy will” Psalms 40:8
DELIGHT, verb intransitive
To have or take great pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; followed by in.
- “I delight in the law of God after the inward man” Romans 7:22
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.