עָנֹג
delicate
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (67%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6028 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:54 וְ/הֶ/עָנֹ֖ג conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
- Deuteronomy 28:56 וְ/הָ/עֲנֻגָּ֗ה conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew adjective ענג centers on the idea of “delicate.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Deuteronomy dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Deuteronomy 28:54. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ענג, ענג and תענוג. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6028 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 67%
- Isaiah 1 verse 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Delicate 3×
- American Standard Version: Delicate 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or delicate 1×, Refined 1×, Refined woman 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Delicate 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6028 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6028 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6028 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6028 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- dainty, delicate
Word origin
Derived from ענג (ʻânag) (H6026) — to be delicate.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָנַג
- (b. h.) to be pliable, soft, tender.—[B. Kam. 80ᵃ הענוגה Ar. s. v. ענג 2, mistaken reading for העגונה, v. עָגַן.]—Denom. עוֹנֶג.
- 1. to soften. Tosef. Maas. Sh. II, 1; Tosef. Ter. X, 4 מְענֶּגֶת שערה וכ׳ (Var. מעגנת, מעגלת, v. עָגַן, עָגַל) she may soften her hair by pressing it against her (the priest’s daughter’s) hair.
- 2. (denom. of עוֹנֶג, with ref. to Is. LVIII, 13, ‘and callest the Sabbath a delight’) to celebrate pleasurably, to enjoy. Sabb. 118ᵇ כל המְעַנֵּג את השבת וכ׳ to him who observes the Sabbath with enjoyments, his heart’s desires are granted. Ib. במה מְעַנְּגוֹ wherewith does one make it enjoyable? Tanḥ. B’resh. 2 עַנְּגֵהוּ enjoy it (the Sabbath). Pesik. R. s. 23, end ובשבת הם באים ומְעַנְּגִים (prob. to be read: ומִתְעַנְּגִים) and on the Sabbath they come and enjoy themselves. e.g. Isaiah 58:13
- to enjoy one’s self; to indulge in luxuries. Ib. כל שהוא מִתְעַנֵּג בשבת שואל וכ׳ whoever enjoys the Sabbath may ask, and the Lord will grant (v. supra). Midr. Till. to Ps. CXLIX בא … הצדיקים מִתְעַנְּגִים come and see how the righteous enjoy luxuries (in the hereafter). Ib. והם מתענגים ואומרים וכ׳ and they act like persons used to comforts, saying, it is impossible to sleep in this bed &c.; a. e.—[Deut. R. s. 7, end היו מתענגים וכ׳ they enjoyed themselves by rolling in the flavored grass; prob. to be read: מִתְעַגְּגִים fr. עגג, v. גִּעְגֵּעַ.]
עֲנַג
- ; Pa. עַנֵּיג
- 1. to soften the skin by ointment, bathing &c.; to feel comfortable. Taan. 25ᵃ יהיבנא לך … דמְעַנְּגַת בהון I shall give thee, in the world to come, thirteen rivers of balsam oil clear as Euphrates and Tigris in which thou shalt find pleasure.
- 2. to celebrate merrily. Tanḥ. B’resh. 2 לעַנּוּגֵיה במאכל וכ׳ to celebrate it (the Sabbath) joyfully with eating &c.
עֹנֶג
- , v. עוֹנֶג
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6028 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הֶ/עָנֹ֖ג | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 28:54 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/עֲנֻגָּ֗ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 28:56 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲנֻגָּֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 47:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6028, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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