noun · masculine
kēpos
Strong’sG2779
a garden
stem kēp-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κῆπος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for גַּן, גִּנָּה, גַּנָּה, De 11:10, Ca 4:12, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2779 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkay'-pos
a garden
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesgarden.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialectκᾶπος (also Refs, ὁ, garden, orchard, or plantation, Refs 8th c.BC+; of any rich, highly cultivated region, as Ἀφροδίτας κᾶπος, i.e. Cyrene, Refs 5th c.BC+, also of heaven, Refs 5th c.BC+; Φοίβου παλαιὸς κ., of the eastern sky,Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ Μίδεω κῆποι, in Macedonia, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the country round Panormus, Refs; the enclosure for the Olympic games, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν κ. the scholars of Epicurus, because he taught in a garden, Refs 2nd c.AD+; οἱ Ἀδώνιδος κ., see at {Ἀδωνι; οἱ Ταντάλου κ}., proverbial of illusory pleasures, Refs 5th c.BC+
II a fashion of cropping the hair, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III pudenda muliebria, Refs 3rd c.AD+
IV variant for {κῆβος} (which see).
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kēpos2×κῆπος | kēpois |
| object accusative | kēpon1×κῆπον | kēpoin |
| direct address vocative | kēpor | kēpoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kēpou | kēpoiu |
| to, for dative | kēpo2×κήπῳ | kēpoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kēpo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
kēpos“garden”subjectnominative singular2×
John 18:1… tou cheimarrou tou Kedrōn hopou ate kēpos, eis hon eiserchata autos kai tois …… Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.
John 19:41… de en to topo hopou staurita kēpos, kai en to kēpo mnēmeiem kainem, …… Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no …
kēpon“garden”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 13:19… sinapieu, hon labarantos anthrōpos balata eis kēpon heautou, kai auxanata kai geneta eis …… that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree …
kēpo“garden”to, fordative singular2×
John 18:26… Ouk mis sin horama en to kēpo meta autou?… see you with Him in the garden?”
John 19:41… hopou staurita kēpos, kai en to kēpo mnēmeiem kainem, en he oudepō oudenos …Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was …