"a garden, any place planted with trees and herbs, Lk. 13:19; Jn. 18:1, 26; 19:41*"
Definition and meaning
a garden, any place planted with trees and herbs, Lk. 13:19; Jn. 18:1, 26; 19:41*
In the original Greek the word is written: κῆπος
Historical context
Luke wrote as a historian addressing a Greek audience. He carefully interviewed eyewitnesses and arranged events in order. The social and economic realities he describes — Roman taxation, Jewish religious hierarchy, the marginalization of women and the poor — are consistent with first-century Judea under Roman administration.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of kepos (G2779) across the King James Bible.
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
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Common questions
Strong's G2779 (kepos) is a Greek word that means: a garden, any place planted with trees and herbs, Lk. 13:19; Jn. 18:1, 26; 19:41* It appears 4 times in the King James Bible.
The word kepos (G2779) appears 4 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G2779 is kepos, a Greek word defined as: a garden, any place planted with trees and herbs, Lk. 13:19; Jn. 18:1, 26; 19:41*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
kepos is a Greek word found in the New Testament.