גָּנַן
gânan · H1598 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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to shield, to defend, to protect
Causative action by which a deity keeps people or town safe from harm or injury, as with a shield
Examples2 Kings 19:34 ‘For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’”
2 Kings 20:6 “And I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will save you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.”’”
Isaiah 31:5 Like flying birds so the LORD of armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and save it; He will pass over and rescue it.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
8 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: I 4
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 3
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 8 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ עִירcity, town 3
- לto/for+ יָשַׁעto save, to deliver 2
- בְּעַדfor, behind, through+ יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
- אֵלto, toward+ עִירcity, town 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ הֶםthem 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֵּןthus 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.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The verb describes shielding or protecting, used of the LORD defending and delivering Jerusalem from the king of Assyria for his own sake.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1598. ganan [גָּנַן] verb cover, surround, defend (Arabic , Aramaic אַגֵּן (Aph`el),…
[גָּנַן] verb cover, surround, defend (Arabic , Aramaic אַגֵּן (Aph`el), Palmyrene אגן VogPalm.132 ff.) —
Qal Perfect וְגַנּוֺתִי Isa 37:35 Isa 37:3t.; Infinitive absolute גָּנוֺן Isa 31:5 (c. Hiph`il q. v.) — defend, subject always ׳י; object the city Jerusalem with על Isa 37:35; Isa 38:6 = 2Ki 20:6; 2Ki 19:34 with אֶלֿ (|| הוֺשִׁיעַ).
Hiph`il Imperfect — or
Qal according to BaZMG 1889, 178, who compare Arabic — יָגֵן Isa 31:5 Isa 31:2t. — defend (= Qal), Jerusalem Isa 31:5 גָּ֗֗֗נוֺן יגן with על (|| הִצִּיל); object Yahweh's people Zec 9:15 with על, Zec 12:8 with בְּעַד.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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