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Strong’s H4574 · Hebrew

מַעֲדָן

maʻădân · mah-ad-awn'

Origin or (feminine) מַעֲדַנָּה; from עָדַן (H5727);

Meaning a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully)

In the King James Version dainty, delicately, delight.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 49:20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
  2. 1 Samuel 15:32Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
  3. Proverbs 29:17Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
  4. Lamentations 4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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