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HebrewH6540Noun

פָּרַס

pa.ras

3Occurrences
H6540Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

(Aramaic) corresponding to H6539 (פָּרַס)

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Aramaic of pa.ras (*פָּרַס *"Persia" H6539) § 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 1a) 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 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
2
Daniel
1

Key Passages

Daniel 5:28BSB

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Ezra 4:24BSB

Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 6:14BSB

So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo.They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

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