gan · garden

What it means

gan (גַּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “garden”.

An enclosed and tended piece of land, with trees and water.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An enclosed, watered plot with trees and plants, like Eden.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• garden ×38
• gardens ×3
• Beth-haggan ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×14
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×5
• Nehemiah×1
• Song of Songs×8
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Joel×1

• Genesis 2:8

  And YHWH Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

• Genesis 2:9

  And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Genesis 2:10

  And a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.

• Genesis 2:15

  And YHWH Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

• Genesis 2:16

  And YHWH Elohim commanded the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

• Genesis 3:1

  Now the serpent was more shrewd than any animal of the field that YHWH Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, “Did Elohim really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

• Genesis 3:2

  And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

• Genesis 3:3

  but from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden Elohim has said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, or you will die.’”

• Genesis 3:8

  And they heard the sound of YHWH Elohim walking about in the garden in the wind of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of YHWH Elohim among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 3:10

  And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked; and I hid.”

• Genesis 3:23

  And YHWH Elohim sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

• Genesis 3:24

  And he drove out the man, and he stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of the sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered (before YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of YHWH, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.

• Deuteronomy 11:10

  For the land into which you are going to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you would sow your seed and water it with your foot, like a garden of vegetables.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that it may be mine for a garden of vegetables, for it is near, beside my house; and I will give you in its place a vineyard better than it; or, if it is good in your eyes, I will give you silver, the price of it.”

• 2 Kings 9:27

  Ahaziah king of Judah saw this and fled by the way of Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him and said, “Him too! Strike him!” And they struck him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.

• 2 Kings 21:18

  Manasseh lay down with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzzah; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 21:26

  They buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzzah; and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 25:4

  The city was breached, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that is by the garden of the king, while the Chaldeans were against the city all around; and he went by way of the Arabah.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  And the Fountain Gate Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired; he built it and roofed it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

• Song of Songs 4:12

  A garden locked is my sister, bride, a fountain locked, a spring sealed.

• Song of Songs 4:15

  a spring of gardens, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 4:16

  Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, let its balsams flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his choice fruits.

• Song of Songs 5:1

  I have come to my garden, my sister, bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, companions; drink, and be drunk with love!

• Song of Songs 6:2

  My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden beds of balsam, to pasture in the gardens and to gather lilies.

• Song of Songs 8:13

  You who dwell in the gardens, companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.

• Isaiah 51:3

  For YHWH will comfort Zion, he will comfort all her ruins; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her Arabah like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.

• Isaiah 58:11

  And YHWH will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in scorched places, and your bones he will strengthen; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not deceive.

• Jeremiah 31:12

  And they will come and sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will stream to the goodness of YHWH, to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul will be like a watered garden, and they will not languish ever again.

• Jeremiah 39:4

  And it happened, when Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out by night from the city by way of the garden of the king, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out by way of the Arabah.

• Jeremiah 52:7

  The city was breached, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls that is by the garden of the king, while the Chaldeans were against the city all around; and they went by way of the Arabah.

• Lamentations 2:6

  And he has done violence, as to a garden, to his booth; he has destroyed his meeting place; YHWH has made them forget in Zion appointed feast and Sabbath, and he has spurned, in the indignation of his anger, king and priest.

• Ezekiel 28:13

  In Eden, the garden of Elohim, you were; every precious stone was your covering: ruby, topaz, and diamond, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald, and gold; the work of your tambourines and of your settings was in you; on the day you were created they were prepared.

• Ezekiel 31:8

  The cedars did not eclipse it in the garden of Elohim; the cypresses did not resemble its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its foliage; no tree in the garden of Elohim resembled it in its beauty.

• Ezekiel 31:9

  Beautiful I made it in the abundance of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of Elohim.’

• Ezekiel 36:35

  And they will say, “This land, the desolate one, has become like the garden of Eden; and the ruined cities, and the desolate and the torn down, are fortified and inhabited.”

• Joel 2:3

  Before it fire devours, and behind it flame blazes; like the garden of Eden is the land before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness; and nothing escapes it.

And 5 more times.