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Strong's H1588 גַּן (gan)

Gan means “garden” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1588 — eklektos (“elect”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1588
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 37
Books 11

Strong's H1588 Quick Answer

Strong's H1588 גַּן (gan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gan (gan) n-e. 1. a garden (as fenced) [from H1598] It has 37 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include garden, gardens, and like. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
gan (gan) n-e. 1. a garden (as fenced) [from H1598]
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
11 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
garden, gardens, and like

Meaning and Definition

gan (gan) n-e. 1. a garden (as fenced) [from H1598] KJV: garden. Root(s): H1598

Original Word
גַּן
Transliteration
gan
Derivation
Root: גנן First root strongs: 1598
Morphology
n-e.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1588. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1588 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

garden Genesis 2:8 34× gardens Song of Solomon 4:15 like Genesis 13:10

How Strong's H1588 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1588 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1588 in the Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 2:8 KJV

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:9 KJV

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10 KJV

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1588.

Genesis 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Genesis 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:23 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3:24 Old Testament, KJV
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 13:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Deuteronomy 11:10 Old Testament, KJV
For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
1 Kings 21:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
2 Kings 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2 Kings 21:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 21:26 Old Testament, KJV
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
Nehemiah 3:15 Old Testament, KJV
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Song of Solomon 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Song of Solomon 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Song of Solomon 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Song of Solomon 6:2 Old Testament, KJV
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Isaiah 51:3 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 58:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Jeremiah 31:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah 39:4 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
Jeremiah 52:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Lamentations 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Ezekiel 28:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ezekiel 31:8 Old Testament, KJV
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezekiel 31:9 Old Testament, KJV
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Ezekiel 36:35 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Joel 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1588, grouped by book.

Genesis 13 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 6 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1588 FAQ

What does gan (גַּן) mean?

Gan (Strong's H1588) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "garden". gan (gan) n-e. 1. a garden (as fenced) [from H1598]

How many times is gan (גַּן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's H1588 across 11 books.

Where can I study gan (גַּן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1588 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate gan (גַּן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as garden, gardens, and like. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.