גַּן noun masculine[Song 4:12] & ([Gen 2:15]) feminine enclosure, garden (Late Hebrew id., גַּנָּה Arabic , Ethiopic Assyrian ginû COTGloss, also gannatu DlPr 84; Aramaic גִּנָּא, גִּנְתָּא, ; Phoenician פר אגנן אם צץ[צ] CISi, 165, 11 & p. 232 f. birds of enclosure (domestic fowls) or of wing) — absolute גַּן [Gen 2:8] + 3 t.; construct id. [Gen 2:15] + 19 t.; with article הַגָּן [Gen 2:9] + 9 t., but כַּגַּן [Lam 2:6] suffix גַּנִּי [Song 4:16]; [Song 5:1], גַּנּוֺ [Song 4:16]; [Song 6:2] Plural גַּנִּים [Song 4:15] + 2 t. — garden as enclosure [Lam 2:6] (simile); הַיּוֺשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים [Song 8:13] compare [Song 4:12] (figurative of, bride גַּן נָעוּל); g. of herbs (יָרָק) [Deut 11:10]; [1Kgs 21:2] figurative of bride, g. of plants, fruits, and spices [Song 4:16] (twice in verse); [Song 5:1]; [Song 6:2] (twice in verse) compare מַעְיַן גנים [Song 4:15] g. of (king's) house) [2Kgs 21:18] = גַּןעֻֿזָּא [2Kgs 21:18]; [2Kgs 21:26] גַּן הַמֶּלֶךְ [2Kgs 25:4]; [Jer 39:4]; [Jer 52:7]; [Neh 3:15], compare בֵּית הַגָּן) [2Kgs 9:27] (at Jez-reel ? but this perhaps proper name, of a location see below בית p. III ); most often of garden (orchard ?) in Eden (Hexateuch only Gen & only J) [Gen 2:8]; [Gen 2:9]; [Gen 2:10]; [Gen 2:16]; [Gen 3:1]; [Gen 3:2]; [Gen 3:3]; [Gen 3:8] (twice in verse); [Gen 3:10], called גַּןעֵֿדֶן [Gen 2:15]; [Gen 3:23]; [Gen 3:24]; [Ezek 36:35]; [Joel 2:3], compare ׳גןיֿ [Gen 13:10]; [Isa 51:3] (both in simile); גןאֿלהים [Ezek 28:13] (׳עֵדֶן גןאֿל), [Ezek 31:8] (twice in verse); [Ezek 31:9] (|| עֵדֶן); in last three the trees of the garden are compare with Assyrian under figure of cedar of Lebanon.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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