Lexicon :: Strong's H1588 - gan

So the LORD God took the man [He had made] and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And [fn]the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from [fn]any tree of the garden’?”

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day, so the man and his wife hid and kept themselves hidden from the [fn]presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him too, [while he is] in the chariot.” So they shot him at the ascent to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And Ahaziah fled to Megiddo and died there.

Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, official of the district of Mizpah repaired the [fn]Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it [with a roof], and set up its doors with its bolts and its bars, and [he rebuilt] the wall of the Pool of Shelah (Siloam) by the King’s Garden as far as the stairs that descend [the eastern slope] from [the section of Jerusalem known as] the City of David.

“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—

A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

“You are a fountain in a garden,

A well of fresh and living water,

And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

(The Bridegroom)

“I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride;

I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words].

I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends;

Drink and drink deeply, O lovers.”

(The Shulammite Bride)

“My beloved has gone down to his garden,

To the beds of balsam,

To feed his flock in the gardens

And gather lilies.

(The Bridegroom)

“O you who sit in the gardens,

My companions are listening for your voice—

Let me hear it.”

For the LORD will comfort Zion [in her captivity];

He will comfort all her ruins.

And He will make her wilderness like Eden,

And her desert like the garden of the LORD;

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

Thanksgiving and the voice of a melody.

“And the LORD will continually guide you,

And satisfy your soul in scorched and dry places,

And give strength to your bones;

And you will be like a watered garden,

And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

“They will come and sing aloud and shout for joy on the height of Zion,

And will be radiant [with joy] over the goodness of the LORD—

For the grain, for the new wine, for the oil,

And for the young of the flock and the herd.

And their life will be like a watered garden,

And they shall never sorrow or languish again.

And He has violently broken down His temple like a [fragile] garden hedge;

He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.

The LORD has caused the appointed feast and Sabbath

To be forgotten in Zion

And has despised and rejected the king and the priest

In the indignation of His anger.

“You were in [fn]Eden, the garden of God;

Every precious stone was your covering:

The ruby, the topaz, and the diamond;

The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper;

The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald;

And the gold, the workmanship of your [fn]settings and your sockets,

Was in you.

They were prepared

On the day that you were created.

‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it;

The cypress trees did not have boughs like it,

And the [fn]plane trees did not have branches like it.

No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty.

Before them a fire devours,

And behind them a flame burns;

Before them the land is like the Garden of Eden,

But behind them a desolate wilderness;

And nothing at all escapes them.