תַּעֲנוּג
luxury
also: daintiness, exquisite delight, pleasantness, delight fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 3 times (60%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (20%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8588 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 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.
Proverbs 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Micah 2 verses
- Micah 1:16 תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִ/ךְ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2fs Shave your heads, And cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; For they have gone into captivity from you!
- Micah 2:9 תַּֽעֲנֻגֶ֑י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; From their young children you take away my blessing forever.
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.
“luxury” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun תענוג (taʻănûwg). A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than a third of its appearances fall in Micah. First canonically at Proverbs 19:10, it enters the text early. Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “daintiness”, “exquisite delight”, and “pleasantness”. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8588 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Micah 2 verses 40%
- Proverbs 1 verse 20%
- Ecclesiastes 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 40%
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: Delights 2×
- American Standard Version: Delicate 1×, Delight 1×, Delights 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Delights 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Delights 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8588 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8588 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8588 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8588 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. luxury: ת׳ Pr 19:10; elsewhere pl.; cstr. תַּעֲנֻגוֹת Ec 2:8. e.g. Proverbs 19:10
- 2. 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. e.g. Micah 1:16
- 3. delight of love, pl. abs. בַּתַּעֲנוּגִים Ct 7:7 (PerlesAnal. 22 f. conj. בַּת עַמִּינָדָב). e.g. Song of Solomon 7:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.[m.] daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
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.
תַּענוּג
- enjoyment, pleasure, luxury. Y. Ber. II, 5ᵇ רחיצה של ת׳ a bath for pleasure; שאינה של ת׳ an ordinary cleansing bath. Y. Yoma VIII, 44ᵈ) a. e. סיכה שהיא של ת׳ luxurious ointing of the body; שאינה של ת׳ common ointing. Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᶜ אם לת׳ if you drink it for the enjoyment of it, contrad. to לרפואה as a medicine. Erub. 54ᵃ (from Ben Sira) שאין בשאול ת׳ וכ׳ there is no pleasure in the nether world, and no delay for death. Pesik. R. s. 23, end לא … אלא לת׳ the Sabbath has been given to man for enjoyment. Taan. 12ᵇ; a. fr.
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 5 distinct written forms H8588 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ/תַּֽעֲנוּגִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Song of Solomon 7:6 | 1 |
| וְ/תַעֲנוּגֹ֛ת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ecclesiastes 2:8 | 1 |
| תַּֽעֲנֻגֶ֑י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Micah 2:9 | 1 |
| תַּעֲנ֑וּג | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 19:10 | 1 |
| תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִ/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Micah 1:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8588, 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 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
