TENDER, soft — of a calf (Genesis 18:7, a calf, tender and good), of children too young to be driven hard (33:13), of Leah’s eyes (29:17, see rakkot), and of a heart: the man fearful and tender of heart is sent home from the army at Deuteronomy 20:8 (all already on these pages). ⭐ At Deuteronomy 28:54 and 56 it is the man and the woman most protected from hardship — the tender and delicate woman among you, who never ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground — and they are the ones the siege turns on their own children. Proverbs makes it a virtue, a soft answer turns away wrath (15:1), and a soft tongue breaks a bone (25:15, neither yet on these pages). The KJV, ASV and Geneva read ‘tender’, the NWT 1984 ‘delicate’, the NIV ‘gentle’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «tierno». → first discussed at Deut 28:54