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# גַּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1588

**enclosure** — used 41 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

enclosure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1588/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּן²: n.m. enclosure, garden n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1588/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ct 4:12 & (Gn 2:15) f. enclosure, garden (NH id., גַּנָּה, Arabic جَنَّةٌ, Ethiopic ገnነት Assyrian gannu or gannatu word of unc. meaning; Aramaic גִּנָּא, גִּנְתָּא, ܓܰܢܬܳܐ; Ph. פר אגנן אם צץ\[צ\] CISi, 165, 11 & p. 232 f. birds of enclosure (domestic fowls) or of wing)—abs. גַּן Gn 2:8 + 3 times; cstr. id. Gn 2:15 + 19 times; c. art. הַגָּן Gn 2:9 + 9 times, but כַּגַּן La 2:6; sf. גַּנִּי Ct 4:16; 5:1, גַּנּוֹ Ct 4:16; 6:2; Pl. גַּנִּים Ct 4:15 + 2 times—garden as enclosure La 2:6 (simile); הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים Ct 8:13; cf. Ct 4:12 (fig. of bride גַּן נָעוּל); g. of herbs (יָרָק) Dt 11:10 1 K 21:2; fig. of bride, g. of plants, fruits, and spices Ct 4:16(×2); 5:1; 6:2(×2) cf. מַעְיַן גנים Ct 4:15; g. of (king’s) house 2 K 21:18 = גַּן־עֻזָּא 2 K 21:18, 26; גַּן הַמֶּלֶךְ 2 K 25:4 Je 39:4; 52:7 Ne 3:15, cf. בֵּית הַגָּן 2 K 9:27 (at Jezreel? but this perhaps n.pr.loc. v. sub בית p. 111); most often of garden (orchard?) in Eden (Hex only Gn & only J) Gn 2:8, 9, 10, 16; 3:1, 2, 3, 8(×2), 10, called גַּן־עֵדֶן Gn 2:15; 3:23, 24 Ez 36:35 Jo 2:3, cf. גן־י׳ Gn 13:10 Is 51:3 (both in simile); גן־אלהים Ez 28:13 (עֵדֶן גן־אל׳), 31:8(×2), 9 (‖ עֵדֶן); in last three the trees of the garden are comp. with Assyrian under fig. of cedar of Lebanon.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the garden (23); garden (9); a garden (4).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/#tree)

גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.garden locked sister my bride a.spring locked a.spring sealed.up

*JPS 1917:* A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

[Song of Songs 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.15/#tree)

מַעְיַ֣ן גַּנִּ֔ים בְּאֵ֖ר מַ֣יִם חַיִּ֑ים וְנֹזְלִ֖ים מִן־לְבָנֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* a.spring of.gardens a.well of.water living and flowing from Lebanon

*JPS 1917:* Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1588.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1588/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).