A verb describing luxurious delight, tender pleasure, and the experience of exquisite enjoyment. Can refer to physical comfort, spiritual joy, or indulgent luxury depending on context. Isaiah uses it to describe the delight God's people find in Sabbath observance.
Isaiah 58:14 makes a stunning promise: if you honor the Sabbath and call it a delight (oneg, from the same root), 'then shalt thou delight thyself (anag) in the LORD.' The word reveals that God is not a taskmaster demanding joyless obedience. He designed rest as a pathway to pleasure β pleasure in Him. Psalm 37:4 commands: 'Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.' The theological insight: our deepest pleasures are meant to be found in God Himself, not apart from Him.