גַּן gan

Hebrew word for “garden” · Strong’s H1588 · used 42 times in 37 verses

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Meaning

1) garden, enclosure; 1a) enclosed garden; 1a1) (fig. of a bride); 1b) garden (of plants); 1c) Garden of Eden

Senses in the lexicon

• garden (39)
• Garden (of Uzza) (2)
• (Beth)-haggan (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for gan in context, with how often each is used:

• garden 30
• like the garden 5
• gardens 3
• like a garden 2
• like garden 1
• haggan 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 3 (7), Genesis 2 (5), Song of Solomon 4 (3), 2 Kings 21 (2), Ezekiel 31 (2), Genesis 13 (1), Deuteronomy 11 (1), 1 Kings 21 (1), 2 Kings 9 (1), 2 Kings 25 (1)

Forms

• בגן 9
• הגן 8
• כגן 8
• גן 6
• לגן 3
• לגנו 2
• בגנים 2
• מגן 1
• גנים 1
• גני 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עֵדֶן eden “Eden” 10
• עֵץ ets “tree” 9
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 7
• עֲרָבָה aravah “Arabah” 4
• חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 4
• אָדָם adam “man” 5
• דּוֹד dod “beloved” 3
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 5
• רָוֶה raveh “watered” 2
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 4
• שָׁם sham “there” 5
• יָרָק yaraq “herb” 2

Key verses

The verses using gan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 2:9 — And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,…
• Genesis 3:1 — Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of…
• Genesis 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the…
• 2 Kings 25:4 — And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees…
• Song of Solomon 4:16 — Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant…
• Song of Solomon 5:1 — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my…
• Song of Solomon 6:2 — My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
• Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;…
• Isaiah 58:11 — And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring…
• Jeremiah 31:12 — Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for…
• Lamentations 2:6 — And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn…
• Ezekiel 28:13 — Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.