גַּןgan
enclosure, garden (Song of Solomon 4:12; Genesis 2:15; Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Lamentations 2:6)
Pronunciation: gan · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1588
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 42 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
- Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
- Genesis 2:15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
- Genesis 2:16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—
- Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
See every passage
- Genesis 2:8, 2:9, 2:10, 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, 21:18, 21:26, 25:4
- Nehemiah 3:15
- Song of Solomon 4:12, 4:15, 4:16, 5:1, 6:2, 8:13
- Isaiah 51:3, 58:11
- Jeremiah 31:12, 39:4, 52:7
- Lamentations 2:6
- Ezekiel 28:13, 31:8, 31:9, 36:35
- Joel 2:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).