Delicate
Bible Usage:
- delicate used 5 times.
- delicately used 4 times.
- delicateness used once.
- delicates used once.
- First Reference: Deuteronomy 28:54
- Last Reference: Micah 1:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
DELICATE, adjective [Latin Connected with delight; to delight.]
1. Of a fine texture; fine; soft; smooth; clear, or fair; as a delicate skin.
2. Nice; pleasing to the taste; of an agreeable flavor; as delicate food; a delicate dish.
3. Nice in perception of what is agreeable; dainty; as a delicate taste; and figuratively, nice and discriminating in beauty and deformity.
4. Nice; accurate; fine; soft to the eye; as a delicate color.
5. Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by condescension and attention to the wishes and feelings of others; as delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.
6. Pleasing to the senses; as a delicate flavor.
7. Fine; slender; minute; as a delicate thread.
8. That cannot be handled without injury or danger; that must be touched with care; as a delicate point or topic; a delicate question.
9. Composed of fine threads, or nicely interwoven; as a delicate texture; hence, soft and smooth to the touch; as delicate silk.
10. Tender; effeminate; not able to endure hardship; very impressible to injury; as a delicate frame or constitution.
11. Feeble; not sound or robust; as delicate health.
DELICATE, noun Any thing nice; a nicety.
DELICATELY, adverb
1. In a delicate manner; with nice regard to propriety and the feelings of others.
2. Daintily; luxuriously.
They that live delicately are in kings courts. Luke 7:25.
3. With soft elegance; as an expression delicately turned.
4. Tenderly; with indulgence in ease, elegance and luxury. Proverbs 29:21.
DELICATENESS, noun The state of being delicate; tenderness; softness; effeminacy. Deuteronomy 28:56.