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# גָּנַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1598

**cover** — used 8 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

cover [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1598/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּנַן: vb. cover, surround, defend Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1598/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cover, surround, defend (Arabic جَنَّ, Aramaic אַגֵּן (Aph.), Palm. אגן VogPalm. 132 ff.)— Pf. וְגַנּוֹתִי Is 37:35 + 3 times; Inf. abs. גָּנוֹן Is 31:5 (c. Hiph. q.v.)—defend, subj. always י׳; obj. the city Jerusalem c. על Is 37:35; 38:6 = 2 K 20:6; 2 K 19:34 c. אֶל־ (‖ הוֹשִׁיעַ). Impf.—or Qal according to BaZMG 1889, 178, who comp. Arabic يَجِنُّ —יָגֵן Is 31:5 + 2 times—defend (= Qal), Jerusalem Is 31:5 יגן … גָּנוֹן c. על (‖ הִצִּיל); obj. Yahweh’s people Zc 9:15 c. על, 12:8 c. בְּעַד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will defend (4); he will defend (3); he will defend \[it\] (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 31:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.5/#tree)

כְּצִפֳּרִ֣ים עָפ֔וֹת כֵּ֗ן יָגֵ֛ן יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל־יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם גָּנ֥וֹן וְהִצִּ֖יל פָּסֹ֥חַ וְהִמְלִֽיט׃

*Word for word:* like birds flying so he.will.defend Yahweh of.hosts (on) Jerusalem he.will.defend.\[it\] and he.will.rescue.\[it\] he.will.pass.over.\[it\] and he.will.deliver.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* As birds hovering, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.

[2 Kings 19:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.34/#tree)

וְגַנּוֹתִ֛י אֶל־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את לְהֽוֹשִׁיעָ֑הּ לְמַֽעֲנִ֔י וּלְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֥ד עַבְדִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.defend (to) the city (the) this to deliver it for my.own.sake and for.the.sake.of David servant my

*JPS 1917:* For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1598.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1598/): 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).