Dainty
עָנֹגStrong’s H6028anog (a-nog)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anog is the Hebrew word usually translated “delicate”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:”
Meaning
- Dainty, delicate
How it's translated
- and delicate 2
- and the delicate 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
- Isaiah 47:1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Hebrew dictionary
עָנֹג anog · dainty
dainty, delicate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dainty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DA'INTY, adjective
- Nice; pleasing to the palate; of exquisite taste; delicious; as dainty food.
- Delicate; of acute sensibility; nice in selecting what is tender and good; squeamish; soft; luxurious; as a dainty taste or palate; a dainty people.
- Scrupulous in manners; ceremonious.
- Elegant; tender; soft; pure; neat; effeminately beautiful; as dainty hands or limbs.
All definitions and other forms of “dainty”
- Nice; affectedly fine; as a dainty speaker.
DA'INTY, noun
- Something nice and delicate to the taste; that which is exquisitely delicious; a delicacy.“Be not desirous of dainties, for they are deceitful meat” Proverbs 23:3
- A term of fondness.
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.