Strong's #1598: ganan (pronounced gaw-nan')

a primitive root; to hedge about, i.e. (generally) protect:--defend.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gânan

1) to defend, cover, surround

1a) (Qal) to defend

1b) (Hiphil) to defend

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

2 Kings 19:34: " For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's"
2 Kings 20:6: "city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this"
Isaiah 31:5: "so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver"
Isaiah 31:5: "of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve"
Isaiah 37:35: " For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's"
Isaiah 38:6: "out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city."
Zechariah 9:15: "of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with slingstones;"
Zechariah 12:8: "day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble"