Luxuriant
רַעֲנַןStrong’s H7487raanan (ra-a-nan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Raanan is the Aramaic word usually translated “flourishing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:”
Meaning
- Flourishing
How it's translated
- and flourishing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
רַעֲנַן raanan · luxuriant
flourishing Aramaic of ra.a.nan (רַעֲנָן "luxuriant" H7488B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “luxuriant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LUXU'RIANT, adjective
- Exuberant in growth; abundant; as a luxuriant growth of grass.
- Exuberant in plenty; superfluous in abundance.
- A luxuriant flower multiplies the covers of the fructification so as to destroy the essential parts.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.