גַּן
gan · gan
a garden (as fenced)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1598 (גָּנַן);
a garden (as fenced)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: garden.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the seed, life continuing
To carry, to lift up of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גַּן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
42 occurrences · 42 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the garden8 · 19%
- in the garden7 · 17%
- garden6 · 14%
- a garden2 · 5%
- the garden2 · 5%
- into his garden2 · 5%
- in the gardens2 · 5%
- into the garden1 · 2%
- from the garden1 · 2%
- even as the garden1 · 2%
- as a garden1 · 2%
- that i may have it for a garden1 · 2%
- of gardens1 · 2%
- upon my garden1 · 2%
- into my garden1 · 2%
- like the garden1 · 2%
- as if it were of a garden1 · 2%
- that were in the garden1 · 2%
- is become like the garden1 · 2%
- is as the garden1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.