gana · garden

What it means

gana (גַּנָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “garden”.

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. A plot with plants and trees.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• gardens ×9
• garden ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Amos×2

• Numbers 24:6

  Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes YHWH has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

• Job 8:16

  He is full of sap before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go out.

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them every kind of fruit tree;

• Isaiah 1:29

  For they will be ashamed of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush for the gardens that you chose.

• Isaiah 1:30

  For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden that has no water.

• Isaiah 61:11

  For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden makes its seeds sprout, so Adonai YHWH will make sprout righteousness and praise before all the nations.

• Isaiah 65:3

  the people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on the bricks;

• Isaiah 66:17

  “Those who consecrate themselves and purify themselves for the gardens, after one in the middle, who eat the flesh of pigs and the detestable thing and the mouse, will come to an end together, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 29:5

  Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their fruit.

• Jeremiah 29:28

  For that is why he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “It will be long; build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their fruit.”’”

• Amos 4:9

  I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the cutting locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

• Amos 9:14

  And I will turn back the captivity of my people Israel, and they will build the desolate cities and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and drink their wine; and they will make gardens and eat their fruit.