κῆπος
kēpos · G2779 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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garden, orchard
A field used for the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables
ExamplesLuke 13:19 “It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, He went away with His disciples across the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden which He entered with His disciples.
John 18:26 One of the slaves of the high priest, who was related to the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰσέρχομαιto enter, to go into, to come into 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὅπουwhere, wherever, in which 1
- τόποςplace 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μνημεῖονgrave 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto 2
- ἐνin 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- גַּן gan · H1588 · garden
- גַּן (gan, H1588) גַּן is the standard Hebrew term for 'garden' that κῆπος (kēpos, G2779) κῆπος translates in the LXX, denoting cultivated enclosed spaces from Eden (Genesis 2–3) to royal gardens, with direct semantic equivalence across both botanical and metaphorical uses.
- גַּנָּה gannâh · H1593 · garden
- Hebrew גַּנָּה (gannâh, H1593) is the direct Hebrew equivalent regularly rendered by Greek κῆπος (kēpos, G2779) in LXX translation contexts, both denoting an enclosed cultivated garden space.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Garden, orchard1.97
- κῆπος names a cultivated garden or orchard. Luke 13:19 compares the kingdom of God to a mustard seed “which a man took and threw into his own garden,” the κῆπος being the plot of ground where he planted it and where it grew into a tree.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κήπου, ὁ (thought to be allied with σκάπτω, Latincampus, etc.), from Homer down, the…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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