עָנַג ʻânag — to be soft or pliable, i.e. (figuratively) effeminate or luxurious
Translated in the KJV as delicate, delight, sport self.
a primitive root; to be soft or pliable, i.e. (figuratively) effeminate or luxurious.
ʻânag in each stem
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 1Imperative 1
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon 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,
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
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 ›