Garden
גַּנָּהStrong’s H1593gannah (gan-nah)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gannah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gardens”, “like a garden” and “like gardens”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.”
Meaning
- Garden, orchard
How it's translated
- gardens 4
- and like a garden 2
- like gardens 1
- garden its 1
- from the gardens 1
- in gardens 1
- the gardens 1
- gardens your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Jeremiah 2
- Amos 2
- Numbers 1
- Job 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 8:16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
- Ecclesiastes 2:5I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
- Isaiah 1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- Isaiah 1:30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
- Isaiah 61:11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
- Isaiah 65:3A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Hebrew dictionary
גַּנָּה gannah · garden
garden, orchard Also means: gin.nah (גִּנָּה "garden" H1594)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.