Garden
κῆποςStrong’s G2779kēpos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kēpos is the Greek word usually translated “garden”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.”
Meaning
Usually translated “garden”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- garden 3
- a garden 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 3
- Luke 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- John 18:1When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
- John 18:26One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
- John 19:41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
Greek dictionary
κῆπος kēpos · garden
κῆπος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for גַּן, גַּנָּה, גִּנָּה, Deu.11:10, Sng.4:12, al. ;] a garden: Luk.13:19, Jhn.18:1, 26 19:41.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “garden” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
G'ARDEN, noun
[Eng. yard, an inclosed place; Latin hortus.]
- A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house.
- A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot.
All definitions and other forms of “garden”
G'ARDEN, verb intransitive
To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.