a.ru.gah denotes a planted plot or raised garden area, used for spices and for the vine’s planting.

The term denotes planted garden areas: in the Song it occurs with spices, lilies, and balsam, while in Ezekiel it marks the places associated with a vine’s planting and branches.

1. Planted garden plot or raised area · dominant

   In Song of Songs 5:13, the singular construct form occurs in the comparison of cheeks with balsam and spices; in Song of Songs 6:2, the plural construct form is associated with a garden, spices, grazing, and gathering lilies. The same plural construct form appears in Ezekiel 17:7 and Ezekiel 17:10 in the vine image, where the APB renders the clauses with “the beds of its planting” and “the beds of its branches.”

   Song of Songs 5:13Song of Songs 6:2Ezekiel 17:7Ezekiel 17:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “beds” in the Ezekiel vine imagery and as “beds” or a singular “garden bed” in the Song passages. These renderings confirm the verses’ garden-setting imagery rather than fixing a separate English equivalent in each clause.