עָדַן ʻâdan — to be soft or pleasant
Translated in the KJV as delight self.
a primitive root; to be soft or pleasant; figuratively and reflexively, to live voluptuously.
ʻâdan in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיִּֽתְעַדְּנ֖וּ Neh 9:25 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›