--- title: גַּן — enclosure · The Tanakh dictionary description: גַּן (1588), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 41 times: enclosure. BDB 1906: n.m. enclosure, garden n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1588.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ג](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1490-3.md)‎ / גַּן‎ # גַּן «גַּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **enclosure** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 41 times · **Key:** 1588 · **BDB:** גַּן² ### Glosses the.garden (23); garden (9); a.garden (4) ### Meaning (OSHB) enclosure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1588/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. enclosure, garden n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1588/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ct 4:12 \& (Gn 2:15) f. enclosure, garden (NH id., גַּנָּה, Arabic جَنَّةٌ, Ethiopic ገnነት Assyrian gannu or gannatu word of unc. meaning; Aramaic גִּנָּא, גִּנְתָּא, ܓܰܢܬܳܐ; Ph. פר אגנן אם צץ\[צ\] CISi, 165, 11 \& p. 232 f. birds of enclosure (domestic fowls) or of wing)—abs. גַּן Gn 2:8 + 3 times; cstr. id. Gn 2:15 + 19 times; c. art. הַגָּן Gn 2:9 + 9 times, but כַּגַּן La 2:6; sf. גַּנִּי Ct 4:16; 5:1, גַּנּוֹ Ct 4:16; 6:2; Pl. גַּנִּים Ct 4:15 + 2 times—garden as enclosure La 2:6 (simile); הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים Ct 8:13; cf. Ct 4:12 (fig. of bride גַּן נָעוּל); g. of herbs (יָרָק) Dt 11:10 1 K 21:2; fig. of bride, g. of plants, fruits, and spices Ct 4:16(×2); 5:1; 6:2(×2) cf. מַעְיַן גנים Ct 4:15; g. of (king’s) house 2 K 21:18 = גַּן־עֻזָּא 2 K 21:18, 26; גַּן הַמֶּלֶךְ 2 K 25:4 Je 39:4; 52:7 Ne 3:15, cf. בֵּית הַגָּן 2 K 9:27 (at Jezreel? but this perhaps n.pr.loc. v. sub בית p. 111); most often of garden (orchard?) in Eden (Hex only Gn \& only J) Gn 2:8, 9, 10, 16; 3:1, 2, 3, 8(×2), 10, called גַּן־עֵדֶן Gn 2:15; 3:23, 24 Ez 36:35 Jo 2:3, cf. גן־י׳ Gn 13:10 Is 51:3 (both in simile); גן־אלהים Ez 28:13 (עֵדֶן גן־אל׳), 31:8(×2), 9 (‖ עֵדֶן); in last three the trees of the garden are comp. with Assyrian under fig. of cedar of Lebanon. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «גַּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1588/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Song of Songs 4:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/) גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃ *Word for word:* \[is\].a.garden locked sister my bride a.spring locked a.spring sealed.up *JPS 1917:* A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. [Song of Songs 4:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.15/) מַעְיַ֣ן גַּנִּ֔ים בְּאֵ֖ר מַ֣יִם חַיִּ֑ים וְנֹזְלִ֖ים מִן־לְבָנֽוֹן׃ *Word for word:* a.spring of.gardens a.well of.water living and flowing from Lebanon *JPS 1917:* Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon. - ← previous: [גְּמַרְיָהוּ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5de_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.md) - next →: [גָּנַב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1589.md) - ↑ back to [ג](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1490-3.md)