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
- Genesis 49:20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
- 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.
- Proverbs 29:17Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
- 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.