Word Summary
Gethsēmanē: Gethsemane, an olive orchard on the Mount of Olives
Original Word: ΓεθσημανῆTransliteration: Gethsēmanē
Phonetic Spelling: (gheth-say-man-ay')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Gethsemane, an olive orchard on the Mount of Olives
Meaning: Gethsemane -- an olive orchard on the Mount of Olives
Strong's Concordance
Gethsemane.
Of Chaldee origin (compare gath and shemen); oil-press; Gethsemane, a garden near Jerusalem -- Gethsemane.
see HEBREW gath
see HEBREW shemen
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1068: ΓεθσημανῆΓεθσημανῆ, or
Γεθσημανει (
T WH), or
Γεθσημανει (
L Tr.); (on the accent in manuscripts see
Tdf. Proleg., p. 103;
Winers Grammar, § 6, 1 m.; indeclinable
Buttmann, 15 (14)) (from
גִּת press, and
שָׁמְנָא oil),
Gethsemane, the name of a 'place' (
χωρίον (
an enclosure or landed property)) at the foot of the Mount of Olives, beyond the torrent Kidron:
Matthew 26:36;
Mark 14:32. (
B. D. American edition, under the word.)