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title: גַּנָּה — garden · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גַּנָּה (1593), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: garden. BDB 1906: n.f. garden. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גַּנָּה

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«גַּנָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **garden** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 16 times · **Key:** 1593 · **BDB:** גַּנָּה

### Glosses

gardens (9); a.garden (3); the.garden (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

garden [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1593/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. garden [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1593/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. garden (cf. foregoing)—גַּנָּה Is 1:30; 61:11; cstr. גִּנָּת Ct 6:11 + 3 times; sf. גַּנָּתוֹ Jb 8:16; pl. גַּנֹּת Nu 24:6, גַּנּוֹת Ec 2:5 + 6 times; sf. גַּנּוֹתֵיכֶם Am 4:9; garden, orchard, Am 4:9 (‖ כֶּרֶם, תְּאֵנָה, זַיִת), 9:14 (fruit-garden; ‖ כֶּרֶם), Je 29:5, 28 Ec 2:5 (‖ פַּרְדֵּס), גִּנַּת אֱגוֹז Ct 6:11 nut-garden; cf. גִּנַּת־בִּיתָן Est 1:5; 7:7, 8, in simile, of prosperous Isr. Nu 24:6 (poem in JE; ג׳עֲלֵינָהָר), of chastised Isr. Is 1:30 (ג׳ אשׁר מים אין לָהּ), of Yahweh’s blessing Is 61:11; in Jb 8:16 עַל־גַּנּוֹ in fig. of prosperity of wicked, as a luxuriant plant; gardens as places of idolatrous worship Is 1:29 (‖ אֵילִים), 65:3 (‖ לְבֵנִים), 66:17 (i.e. groves).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גַּנָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1593/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.16/)

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רָטֹ֣ב ה֭וּאלִפְנֵי־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְעַ֥ל גַּ֝נָּת֗וֹ יֹֽנַקְתּ֥וֹתֵצֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.fresh.\[plant\] he before \[the\].sun and over garden its shoot\[s\] its.young it.goes.out

*JPS 1917:* He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

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[Jeremiah 29:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.5/)

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בְּנ֥וּ בָתִּ֖ים וְשֵׁ֑בוּ וְנִטְע֣וּ גַנּ֔וֹת וְאִכְל֖וּ אֶת־פִּרְיָֽן׃

*Word for word:* build houses and dwell and plant gardens and eat (et) produce their

*JPS 1917:* Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

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