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title: עֶדְנָה — delight · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֶדְנָה (lemma:עֶדְנָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: delight. BDB 1906: n.f. delight. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֶדְנָה

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«עֶדְנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **delight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:עֶדְנָה · **BDB:** עֶדְנָה

### Glosses

pleasure (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֶדְנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5d3_5b0_5e0_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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?'

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