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Lexicon :: Strong's H1588 - gan

Aa
גַּן
Transliteration
gan
Pronunciation
gan
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 367a

Strong’s Definitions

גַּן gan, gan; from H1598; a garden (as fenced):—garden.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H1588 in the following manner: garden (42x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H1588 in the following manner: garden (42x).
masculine/feminine noun

  1. garden, enclosure

    1. enclosed garden

      1. (fig. of a bride)

    2. garden (of plants)

      proper locative noun

    3. Garden of Eden

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גַּן gan, gan; from H1598; a garden (as fenced):—garden.
STRONGS H1588: Abbreviations
† גַּן noun masculineSong of Solomon 4:12 & (Genesis 2:15) feminine enclosure, garden (Late Hebrew id., גַּנָּה Arabic bdb017101, Ethiopic bdb017102 Assyrian ginû COTGloss, also gannatu DlPr 84; Aramaic גִּנָּא, גִּנְתָּא, bdb017103; Phoenician פר אגנן אם צץ [צ] CISi, 165, 11 & p. 232 f. birds of enclosure (domestic fowls) or of wing) — absolute גַּן Genesis 2:8 + 3 times; construct id. Genesis 2:15 + 19 times; with article הַגָּן Genesis 2:9 + 9 times, but כַּגַּן Lamentations 2:6; suffix גַּנִּי Songs 4:16; Songs 5:1, גַּנּוֺ Songs 4:16; Songs 6:2; Plural גַּנִּים Songs 4:15 + 2 times — garden as enclosure Lamentations 2:6 (simile); הַיּוֺשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים Songs 8:13; compare Songs 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 Songs 4:16 (twice in verse); Songs 5:1; Songs 6:2 (twice in verse) compare מַעְיַן גנים Songs 4:15; g. of (king's) house) 2 Kings 21:18 = גַּן־עֻזָּא 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); 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 גַּן־עֵדֶן Genesis 2:15; Genesis 3:23, 24; Ezekiel 36:35; Joel 2:3, compare גן־י׳ Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3 (both in simile); גן־אלהים Ezekiel 28:13 (עֵדֶן גן־אל׳), 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.

בֵּית הַגָּן proper name, of a location? Greek Version of the LXX Βαιθαν (Βαιατγαν), LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Βαιθωρων, 2 Kings 9:27; modern Jenîn? see H1588 גַּן and H5873 עֵין גַּנִּים; compare StaGesch i. 542.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:8; 2:8; 2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 2:15; 2:15; 2:15; 2:16; 3:1; 3:2; 3:3; 3:8; 3:10; 3:23; 3:24; 13:10

Deuteronomy

11:10

1 Kings

21:2

2 Kings

9:27; 9:27; 21:18; 21:18; 21:26; 25:4

Nehemiah

3:15

Song of Songs

4:12; 4:12; 4:15; 4:15; 4:16; 4:16; 4:16; 5:1; 5:1; 6:2; 6:2; 8:13

Isaiah

51:3

Jeremiah

39:4; 52:7

Lamentations

2:6; 2:6

Ezekiel

28:13; 31:8; 31:9; 36:35

Joel

2:3

H1588

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1588 matches the Hebrew גַּן (gan),
which occurs 42 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27 - Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18 - So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 - A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:16 - Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 - My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:13 - You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 - And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:4 - And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 - And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
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