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HebrewH3566Proper Noun (Masculine)

כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ

ko.resh

13Occurrences
H3566Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king

or (Ezra 1:1 (last time),2) כֹּרֶשׁ; from the Persians;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Gedaliah (H1436H) Also named: ko.resh (*כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ *"Cyrus" H3567) § Cyrus = "posses thou the furnace" the king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon; first ruler of Persia to make a decree allowing the Israelite exiles to return to Jerusalem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ appears 13 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
7
2 Chronicles
2
Daniel
2
Isaiah
2

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 36:22BSB

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

Daniel 1:21BSB

And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.

Ezra 1:1BSB

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

Ezra 1:7BSB

King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

Ezra 3:7BSB

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.