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# עֶדְנָה

Biblical Hebrew

**delight** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶדְנָה: n.f. delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. delight;—Gn 18:12 (sexual).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pleasure (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 18:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.12/#tree)

וַתִּצְחַ֥ק שָׂרָ֖ה בְּקִרְבָּ֣הּ לֵאמֹ֑ר אַחֲרֵ֤י בְלֹתִי֙ הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֣י עֶדְנָ֔ה וַֽאדֹנִ֖י זָקֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and she.laughed Sarah in her.inner being (cmp) after I am.worn.out has.it.belonged? to me pleasure and lord my he.is.old

*JPS 1917:* And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).