DELICATE, dainty — used to comfort; the adjective of a root whose verb is to take delight. ⭐ Read across the archived text, the adjective stands in three verses of the Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy 28:54 and 56, the man very delicate and the woman tender and delicate who will eat in secret in the siege, and Isaiah 47:1 (not yet on these pages), where the daughter of Babylon will no longer be called tender and delicate, rakkah va-anuggah — Deuteronomy’s two adjectives in Deuteronomy’s order, turned on the empire that carried out the curse. ⚠ The verb from the same root is what the psalm asks of the righteous, delight yourself in Jehovah (Psalm 37:4, not yet on these pages). The KJV and ASV read ‘delicate’, the Geneva ‘dainty’, the NWT 1984 ‘dainty’, the NIV ‘sensitive’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «delicado», the TNM 1987 «melindroso». → first discussed at Deut 28:54