Luxury
תַּעֲנוּגStrong’s H8588taanug (ta-a-nug)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taanug is the Hebrew word usually translated “luxury”, “delights of” and “delights”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.”
Meaning
- Daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight, pleasantness, delight, comfortluxury · dainty · delight
How it's translated
- luxury 1
- and delights of 1
- with delights 1
- delights your 1
- delights her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Micah 2
- Proverbs 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Song of Solomon 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
- Song of Solomon 7:6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
- Micah 1:16Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
- Micah 2:9The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּעֲנוּג taanug · luxury
1) daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight, pleasantness, delight, comfort 1a) luxury 1b) dainty 1c) delight
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “luxury” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LUX'URY, noun
[Latin luxuria, from luxo, to loosen.]
- A free or extravagant indulgence in the pleasures of the table, as in rich and expensive diet, or delicious food and liquors; voluptuousness in the gratification of appetite; or the free indulgence in costly dress and equipage.
- That which gratifies a nice and fastidious appetite; a dainty; any delicious food or drink.
- Any thing delightful to the senses.
- Lust; lewd desire. [Not now used.]
All definitions
- Luxuriance; exuberance of growth. [Not now used.]
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.