מַעֲדָן
maʻădân · mah-ad-awn'
a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (feminine) מַעֲדַנָּה; from H5727 (עָדַן);
a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dainty, delicately, delight.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › the doorway, the way in › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know of the doorway, the way in of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַעֲדָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
3 occurrences · 3 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- dainties1 · 25%
- unto him delicately1 · 25%
- delight1 · 25%
- delicately1 · 25%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.