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HebrewH6539Noun

פָּרַס

pa.ras

24Occurrences
H6539Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants

of foreign origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Persia = "pure" or "splendid" the empire Persia; encompassed the territory from India on the east to Egypt and Thrace on the west, and included, besides portions of Europe and Africa, the whole of western Asia between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian and the Jaxartes on the north, the Arabian desert, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean on the south Persia proper was bounded on the west by Susiana or Elam, on the north by Media, on the south by the Persian Gulf and on the east by Carmania Persian, of Persia "pure" or "splendid"

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

פָּרַס appears 24 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
9
Daniel
5
Esther
5
2 Chronicles
3
Ezk
2

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 36:20BSB

Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

Daniel 10:13BSB

However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

Esther 1:3BSB

In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.

Esther 10:2BSB

And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

Ezra 1:2BSB

“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.

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