King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4574
Transliteration: maadan or maadannah
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ad-awn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a dainty (food), delight
Meaning: a dainty (food), delight
Word Summary
maadan or maadannah: a dainty (food), delight
Original Word: מַעֲדָןTransliteration: maadan or maadannah
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ad-awn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a dainty (food), delight
Meaning: a dainty (food), delight
Strong's Concordance
dainty, delicately, delight Or (feminine) maadannah {mah-ad-an-naw'}; from adan; a delicacy or (abstractly) pleasure (adverbially, cheerfully) -- dainty, delicately, delight.
see HEBREW adan
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4574. maadan
or maadannah [מַעֲדָן] noun [masculine] dainty (food), delight only plural; — מֶלָךְ מַעֲדַגֵּי Genesis 49:20 royal dainties; לְמַעֲדַנִּים הָאֹכְלִים Lamentations 4:5 those who ate (according to dainties) daintily; more Generally לְנַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ מַעֲדַנִּים וְיִתֵּן Proverbs 29:17 he shall give delight to thy soul ("" וִינִידֶ֑ךָ). — מַעֲדַנּוֺת, also below ענד.
II. עדן (√ of following; compare perhaps Assyrian edinu, plain (in word-lists), SchrCot Genesis 2:8, DlPa 79 f.; other views see Di2:8).