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title: תַּעֲנוּג — daintiness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תַּעֲנוּג (8588), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: daintiness. BDB 1906: daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תַּעֲנוּג

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«תַּעֲנוּג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **daintiness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 8588 · **BDB:** תַּעֲנוּג

### Glosses

delights (1); her.delights (1); luxury (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תַּעֲנוּג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8588/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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!

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

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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.

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