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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #1588 - גַּן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- n m/f
- garden, enclosure
- enclosed garden
- (figuratively of a bride)
- garden (of plants)
- Garden of Eden
- enclosed garden
- garden, enclosure
- n pr loc
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1060) nc (גנ GN) AC: ? CO: Garden AB: Protection: The pictograph c is a picture of the foot and means to walk with an extended meaning to gather. The n is a picture of a sprouting seed. Combined these mean "a gathering of seeds". A garden is a place for growing crops and is often surrounded by a rock wall or hedge to protect it from grazing animals. (eng: genesis; beginning; genetics; genome)
A) nc (גנ GN) AC: ? CO: Garden AB: ?: A garden enclosed by walls for protection. A shield as a wall of protection.
Nm/f) nc (גנ GN) - Garden: KJV (42): garden - Strongs: H1588 (גַּן)
Nf1) enc (גנה GNH) - Garden: KJV (12): garden - Strongs: H1593 (גַּנָּה)
am) ncm (מגנ MGN) - Shield: A wall of protection. KJV (63): shield, buckler, armed, defense, ruler - Strongs: H4043 (מְגִנָּה)
ef1) enic (גינה GYNH) - Garden: KJV (4): garden - Strongs: H1594 (גִּנָּה)
B) nnc (גננ GNN) AC: ? CO: Shield AB: ?: A wall of protection.
V) nnc (גננ GNN) - Shield: A protection of an individual or community. KJV (8): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) defend - Strongs: H1598 (גָּנַן)
C) nca (אגנ AGN) AC: ? CO: Basin AB: ?: A container enclosed by walls.
Nm) nca (אגנ AGN) - Basin: KJV (3): basons, cup, goblet - Strongs: H101 (אַגָּן)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, Ethiopic 
Assyrian ginû COT Gloss, also gannatu Dl Proverbs 84; Aramaic גִּנָּא, גִּנְתָּא, 
; Phoenician פר אגנן אם צץ[צ] CIS i, 165,11 & p. 232f. birds of enclosure (domestic fowls) or of wing) — absolute גַּן Genesis 2:8 3t.; construct id. Genesis 2:15 19t.; with article הַגָּן Genesis 2:9 9t., but כַּגַּן Lamentations 2:6; suffix גַּנִּי Song of Solomon 4:16; Song of Solomon 5:1, גַּנּוֺ Song of Solomon 4:16; Song of Solomon 6:2; Plural גַּנִּים Song of Solomon 4:15 2t. — garden as enclosure Lamentations 2:6 (simile); הַיּוֺשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים Song of Solomon 8:13; compare Song of Solomon 4:12 (figurative of, bride גַּן נָעוּל); g. of herbs (יָרָק) Deuteronomy 11:10; 1 Kings 21:2; figurative of bride, g. of plants, fruits, and spices Song of Solomon 4:16 (twice in verse); Song of Solomon 5:1; Song of Solomon 6:2 (twice in verse) compare מַעְיַן גנים Song of Solomon 4:15; g. of (king's) house) 2 Kings 21:18 = גַּןעֻֿזָּא 2 Kings 21:18,26; גַּן הַמֶּלֶךְ 2 Kings 25:4; Jeremiah 39:4; Jeremiah 52:7; Nehemiah 3:15, compare בֵּית הַגָּן) 2 Kings 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) Genesis 2:8,9,10,16; Genesis 3:1,2,3,8 (twice in verse); Genesis 3:10, called גַּןעֵֿדֶן Genesis 2:15; Genesis 3:23,24; Ezekiel 36:35; Joel 2:3, compare ׳גןיֿ Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3 (both in simile); גןאֿלהים Ezekiel 28:13 (׳עֵדֶן גןאֿל), Ezekiel 31:8 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 31:9 ("" עֵדֶן); in last three the trees of the garden are compare with Assyrian under figure of cedar of Lebanon.
גַּן with suff. גַּנִי comm. (f. Genesis 2:15), a garden, especially one planted with trees (prop. a place protected with a fence, from the root גָּנַן). Genesis 2:8, seq. גַּן הַיֶרֶק a garden of herbs, Deuteronomy 11:10; 1 Kings 21:2. גַּן עֵדֶן the garden of Eden planted by God, Genesis 3:24; Joel 2:3 also called גַּן אֱלֹהִים Deuteronomy 28:13, 31:8, Deuteronomy 31:9 and גַּן יְהֹוָה Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3. A garden enclosed, Song of Solomon 4:12 figuratively used of a chaste woman. Plur. גַּנִּים Song of Solomon 4:15, 6:2.
