Garden
גִּנָּהStrong’s H1594ginnah (gin-nah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ginnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “garden of” and “from garden of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;”
Meaning
- Garden
How it's translated
- garden of 2
- from garden of 1
- a garden of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 3
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 7:7And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
- Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- Song of Solomon 6:11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Hebrew dictionary
גִּנָּה ginnah · garden
garden Another spelling of gan.nah (גַּנָּה "garden" H1593)
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.