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# גַּנָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1593

**garden** — used 16 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

garden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1593/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּנָּה: n.f. garden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1593/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. garden (cf. foregoing)—גַּנָּה Is 1:30; 61:11; cstr. גִּנָּת Ct 6:11 + 3 times; sf. גַּנָּתוֹ Jb 8:16; pl. גַּנֹּת Nu 24:6, גַּנּוֹת Ec 2:5 + 6 times; sf. גַּנּוֹתֵיכֶם Am 4:9; garden, orchard, Am 4:9 (‖ כֶּרֶם, תְּאֵנָה, זַיִת), 9:14 (fruit-garden; ‖ כֶּרֶם), Je 29:5, 28 Ec 2:5 (‖ פַּרְדֵּס), גִּנַּת אֱגוֹז Ct 6:11 nut-garden; cf. גִּנַּת־בִּיתָן Est 1:5; 7:7, 8, in simile, of prosperous Isr. Nu 24:6 (poem in JE; ג׳עֲלֵינָהָר), of chastised Isr. Is 1:30 (ג׳ אשׁר מים אין לָהּ), of Yahweh’s blessing Is 61:11; in Jb 8:16 עַל־גַּנּוֹ in fig. of prosperity of wicked, as a luxuriant plant; gardens as places of idolatrous worship Is 1:29 (‖ אֵילִים), 65:3 (‖ לְבֵנִים), 66:17 (i.e. groves).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gardens (9); a garden (3); the garden (2).

## In the verses

[Job 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.16/#tree)

רָטֹ֣ב ה֭וּאלִפְנֵי־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְעַ֥ל גַּ֝נָּת֗וֹ יֹֽנַקְתּ֥וֹתֵצֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.fresh.\[plant\] he before \[the\].sun and over garden its shoot\[s\] its.young it.goes.out

*JPS 1917:* He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

[Jeremiah 29:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.5/#tree)

בְּנ֥וּ בָתִּ֖ים וְשֵׁ֑בוּ וְנִטְע֣וּ גַנּ֔וֹת וְאִכְל֖וּ אֶת־פִּרְיָֽן׃

*Word for word:* build houses and dwell and plant gardens and eat (et) produce their

*JPS 1917:* Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1593.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1593/): 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).