tender
rakh describes vulnerable youth and delicacy, and can characterize a gentle answer or soft tongue.
The attested uses most often describe people as young, vulnerable, or delicately situated; a smaller group applies the adjective to gentle speech, while several verses describe soft or delicate bodily features and living things.
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Vulnerable or delicately situated people · dominant
In 1 Chronicles 22:5 and 1 Chronicles 29:1, the masculine singular form describes Solomon alongside his youth as David prepares for the great work before him. In Deuteronomy 20:8, the construct form occurs in the question about a fearful, fainthearted man; in Genesis 33:13, the masculine plural form describes children who cannot be driven hard with nursing livestock. Deuteronomy 28:54, Deuteronomy 28:56, and Isaiah 47:1 place the adjective with people characterized in the APB as “tender” and “dainty.”
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Gentle or soft speech · occasional
In Proverbs 15:1, the masculine singular form stands in the clause where the APB renders “A gentle answer turns away wrath,” contrasted with a harsh word that stirs anger. In Proverbs 25:15, the feminine singular form occurs with a tongue that the APB calls “soft” and that “breaks bone.”
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Soft or delicate features and living things · occasional
In Genesis 18:7, the masculine singular form qualifies a calf selected for preparation. Genesis 29:17 uses the feminine plural form for Leah’s eyes, and Ezekiel 17:22 uses the masculine singular form for a shoot taken from the cedar’s topmost branches; the APB renders these clauses with “tender.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “tender” for people, a calf, eyes, and a shoot, but uses “tenderhearted,” “gentle,” and “soft” in context. Because it is a whole-verse translation, these English choices only indicate how the clauses are presented.