Tender
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
(2): ( n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
(3): ( n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
(4): ( n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
(5): ( v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
(6): ( v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
(7): ( n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
(8): ( n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
(9): ( n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
(10): ( v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
(11): ( superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
(12): ( superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
(13): ( superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
(14): ( superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; - with of.
(15): ( superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
(16): ( superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
(17): ( superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
(18): ( superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; - said of a vessel.
(19): ( n.) Regard; care; kind concern.
(20): ( superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
King James Dictionary [2]
TEND'ER, n. from tend. One that attends or takes care of a nurse.
1. A small vessel employed to attend a larger one for supplying her with provisions and other stores, or to convey intelligence and the like. 2. In law, an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture which would be incurred by non-payment or non-performance as the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note or bond with interest. To constitute a legal tender, such money must be offered as the law prescribes the offer of bank notes is not a legal tender. So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.
There is also a tender of issue in pleadings, a tender of an oath, &c.
3. Any offer for acceptance. The gentleman made me a tender of his services. 4. The thing offered. This money is not a legal tender. 5. Regard kind concern. Not in use.
Tend'Er, L tendo.
1. To offer in words or to exhibit or present for acceptance.
All conditions, all minds tender down
Their service to lord Timon.
2. To hold to esteem.
Tender yourself more dearly. Not in use.
3. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, for saving a penalty or forfeiture as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"soft, tender," is used of the branch of a tree, Matthew 24:32; Mark 13:28 .
Luke 1:78 Philippians 1:8 2:1Bowels.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
ten´dẽr : The usual (11 out of 16 times) translation of רך , rakh , "soft," "delicate," with the noun רך , rōkh , in Deuteronomy 28:56 and the verb רכך , rākhakh , in 2 Kings 22:19 parallel 2 Chronicles 34:27 . Attention need be called only to the following cases: In Genesis 29:17 , "Leah's eyes were tender," a physical defect is described ("weak-eyed"; see Blindness ). "Tender-hearted" in 2 Chronicles 13:7 means "faint-hearted," while in 2 Kings 22:19 parallel 2 Chronicles 34:27 ("because thy heart was tender"), it means "penitent." Contrast the modern use in Ephesians 4:32 .
Throughout Psalms (10 times) and Proverbs ( Proverbs 12:10 ), but not elsewhere (the King James Version has "tender love" in Daniel 1:9 , the Revised Version (British and American) "compassion"), English Versions of the Bible translate רחמים , raḥămı̄m , "bowels," by "tender mercies," and this translation has been carried into the New Testament as "tender mercy" (the Revised Version margin "heart of mercy") for the corresponding Greek phrase splágchna eléous ("bowels of mercy") in Luke 1:78; compare "tenderhearted" for eúsplagchnos ("right boweled") in Ephesians 4:32 , based upon the idea of psychology widely spread among Semitic people, which considers the "bowels" ( ḳerebh ) as the seat of all tender emotions of kindness and mercy: See Bowels . the King James Version also has "of tender mercy" in James 5:11 without justification in the Greek ( oiktı́rmon , the Revised Version (British and American) "merciful").
Other special phrases: "tender grape" in the King James Version, Song of Solomon 2:13 , Song of Solomon 2:15; Song of Solomon 7:12 , for סמדר , ṣemādhar . The meaning of the word is not quite certain, but Revised Margin's "blossom" (except Song of Solomon 7:12 margin) is probably right. "Tender grass" in 2 Samuel 23:4; Proverbs 27:25; the Revised Version (British and American) Deuteronomy 32:2 (the King James Version "tender herb"); Isaiah 15:6; Isaiah 66:14 for דּשׁא , deshe' "grass" (Aramaic דּתא , dethe' , Daniel 4:15 , Daniel 4:23 ). The context in these passages and the meaning of the cognates of deshe' in other Semitic languages make this translation probable, but Revised Version's usage is not consistent (compare Genesis 1:11 , Genesis 1:12; Job 6:5; Psalm 23:2 , etc.). Isa, Isaiah 53:2 has "tender plant" for יונק , yōnēḳ , "a sapling," while Job 14:7 has "tender branch" for the allied word יונקת , yōneḳeth , usually rendered "shoot" ( Job 8:16 , etc.). Finally, "tender" in Mark 13:28 parallel Matthew 24:32 is for ἁπαλός , hapalós , "soft." The running sap of springtime softens the branches that were stiff during the winter.
The verb "tender" occurs in 2 Maccabees 4:2 , the King James Version "(he had) tendered his own nation," in the modern sense of "tend." The translation is a paraphrase of the noun κηδεμών , kēdemṓn , "a protector," the Revised Version (British and American) "the guardian of his fellow-countrymen."
