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# תַּעֲנוּג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8588

**daintiness** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

daintiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8588/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּעֲנוּג: daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8588/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight;— luxury: ת׳ Pr 19:10; elsewhere pl.; cstr. תַּעֲנֻגוֹת Ec 2:8. sf. בְּנֵי תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִךְ Mi 1:16 thy dainty sons; בֵּית תַּעֲנֻגֶיהָ 2:9 her (their) dainty house(s), \> of tender love (reading בְּנֵי 2:9) We Now. delight of love, pl. abs. בַּתַּעֲנוּגִים Ct 7:7 (PerlesAnal. 22 f. conj. בַּת עַמִּינָדָב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/#tree)

מַה־יָּפִית֙ וּמַה־נָּעַ֔מְתְּ אַהֲבָ֖ה בַּתַּֽעֲנוּגִֽים׃

*Word for word:* how! you.are.beautiful and how! you.are.lovely O.love with (the) delights

*JPS 1917:* How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

[Proverbs 19:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.10/#tree)

לֹֽא־נָאוֶ֣ה לִכְסִ֣יל תַּעֲנ֑וּג אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־לְעֶ֤בֶד ׀ מְשֹׁ֬ל בְּשָׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* not \[is\].suitable for a.fool luxury indeed? (dm) for a.slave to.rule over princes

*JPS 1917:* Luxury is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8588/): 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).