Word

גַּן

gan · H1588 · Hebrew · 41 occurrences

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Place

Beth-hagganfirst named in 2 Kings 9:271 verse

Meanings

garden

A fenced portion of land used for growing flowers, plants, and vegetables, but also as a burial place, associated with beauty and fragrance

Examples
Genesis 2:8 The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.
King's Garden

The name of a location in Jerusalem

Examples
2 Kings 25:4 Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that were beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.
Nehemiah 3:15 Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, made a roof for it, and installed its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king’s garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.
Jeremiah 39:4 And when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and left the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

How it’s used In 7 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

24 occurrences in 9 groups

עֵדֶןdelightful things 5
אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 4
מֶלֶךְking 4
Other words · 6 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 2 groups

רָוֶהmoist 2
נָעַלto lock 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עֵדֶןdelightful things 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָטַעto plant 1
שָׁקָהto give to drink, to water 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

28 occurrences in 5 groups

בin/on/with 18
כlike/as 12
לto/for 9
מִןfrom 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 4 groups

עֵץtree, wood 4
תָּוֶךְmiddle 2
דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
מַעְיָןspring 1

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.

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.

In the other Testament 2 words

κῆπος kēpos · G2779 · garden, orchard: Greek κῆπος is the direct Septuagint equivalent for Hebrew גַּן, both denoting an enclosed cultivated garden space; the Greek term renders the Hebrew in Eden narratives and other garden contexts with direct semantic correspondence.
παράδεισος parádeisos · G3857 · paradise: παράδεισος (paradeisos) represents a specialized Greek rendering of גַּן (gan), typically reserved for the garden of Eden or idealized paradisal spaces, while גַּן maintains broader application to any cultivated garden or enclosed green space.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Landscapes001002004: The noun denotes a cultivated garden, an enclosed plot of ground planted with trees and vegetation, used throughout narrative and poetic descriptions of fertile land.
Names of Locations003001010: The word also functions as part of the name of the garden of Eden, a specific location planted by God in the east.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גָּנַן gânan · H1598 · to shield, to defend, to protect · 8×מָגֵן mâgên · H4043 · shield · 63×גַּןgan · H1588גַּנָּה gannâh · H1593 · garden · 16×גִּנָּה ginnâh · H1594 · garden · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1588. gan גַּן noun masculineSong of Solomon 4:12 & (Gen 2:15) feminine enclosure,…

H1588. gan
גַּן noun masculineSong of Solomon 4:12 & (Gen 2:15) feminine enclosure, garden (Late Hebrew id., גַּנָּה Arabic , Ethiopic Assyrian ginû COTGloss, also gannatu DlPr 84; Aramaic גִּנְתָּא גִּנָּא,, ; Phoenician צץ אם אגנן פר[צ] CISi, 165, 11 & p. 232 f. birds of enclosure (domestic fowls) or of wing) — absolute גַּן Gen 2:8 Gen 2:3t.; construct id. Gen 2:15 Gen 2:19t.; with article הַגָּן Gen 2:9 Gen 2:9t., but כַּגַּן Lam 2:6; suffix גַּנִּי Son 4:16; Son 5:1, גַּנּוֺ Son 4:16; Son 6:2; Plural גַּנִּים Son 4:15 Son 4:2t. — garden as enclosure Lam 2:6 (simile); בַּגַּנִּים הַיּוֺשֶׁבֶת Son 8:13; compare Son 4:12 (figurative of, bride נָעוּל גַּן); g. of herbs (יָרָק) Deu 11:10; 1Ki 21:2; figurative of bride, g. of plants, fruits, and spices Son 4:16 (twice in verse); Son 5:1; Son 6:2 (twice in verse) compare גנים מַעְיַן Son 4:15; g. of (king's) house) 2Ki 21:18 = גַּןעֻֿזָּא 2Ki 21:18, 2Ki 21:26; הַמֶּלֶךְ גַּן 2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4; Jer 52:7; Neh 3:15, compare הַגָּן בֵּית) 2Ki 9:27 (at Jez-reel ? but this perhaps
proper name, of a location see below בית p. III ); most often of garden (orchard ?) in Eden (Hexateuch only Gen & only J) Gen 2:8-9, Gen 2:10, Gen 2:16; Gen 3:1-2, Gen 3:3, Gen 3:8 (twice in verse); Gen 3:10, called גַּןעֵֿדֶן Gen 2:15; Gen 3:23-24, Eze 36:35; Joe 2:3, compare ׳גןיֿ Gen 13:10; Isa 51:3 (both in simile); גןאֿלהים Eze 28:13 (גןאֿל ׳עֵדֶן), Eze 31:8 (twice in verse); Eze 31:9 (|| עֵדֶן); in last three the trees of the garden are compare with Assyrian under figure of cedar of Lebanon.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Landscapes36 occurrences Names of Locations4 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0