Gardener
Gardener
(), a class of workmen alluded to in Job 27:18, and mentioned in Joh 20:15; but how far the art of gardening was carried among the Hebrews we have few means of ascertaining. That they were acquainted with the process of grafting is evident from Rom 11:17; Rom 11:24, as well as from the minute prohibitions of thee Mishna; and the method of propagating’ plants by layers or cuttings was not unknown (Isa 17:10). Buxtorf says that arisin (Mishna, Bikkurim, 1:2) [or, rather, , were gardeners who tended and looked after gardens on consideration of receiving some portion of the fruit (Lex. Talm. s.v.); but that gardening was a special means of livelihood is clear from a proverb which contains a warning against rash speculations: ” Who hires, a garden eats the birds; who hires gardens, him the birds eat” (Dukes Rabbis. Blumenlese, page 141). SEE GARDEN.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Gardener
gard’n-er (, kepouros): Gardener occurs once in the English Versions of the Bible (Joh 20:15), the translation of kepos and ouros, warden or keeper. It is likely that the man referred to was the watchman or keeper (Arabic natur; Hebrew nocer), corresponding to those mentioned in 2Ki 17:9; 2Ki 18:8; Job 27:18, etc., and not one who did the manual labor. It is the common practice in Palestine today to set a watchman over a garden during its productive season. See WATCHMAN.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Gardener
lit., “a garden-keeper” (from kepos, see above, and ouros, “a watcher”), occurs in Joh 20:15.