פָּרַס
Pâraç · H6539 · Hebrew · proper noun · 28 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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Persia, Persian
A nation and its territory, which was greatly expanded during the reign of Cyrus I
Examples2 Chronicles 36:20 He took into exile those who had escaped from the sword to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
25 occurrences in 6 groups
- מֶלֶךְking 18
- מַלְכוּתkingdom, reign, kingship 2
- שַׂרcommander, chief, official 2
- דָּתlaw 1
- חַיִלarmy, wealth, strength 1
- שָׂרָהprincess 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- פָּרַס Pâraç · H6540 · Persia, Persians
- פָּרַס (Pâraç, H6540) פָּרַס is a variant spelling of the same name as פָּרַס (Pâraç, H6539) פָּרַס (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of Groups003001006
- פָּרַס denotes the Persians, the people of the empire that conquered Babylon and permitted the Jews' return, as of the decree of Cyrus king of Persia recorded in Ezra 1:1 and 1:2.
- Names of Locations003001010
- פָּרַס (Persia) is a place name, the empire and its capital region, illustrated at 2 Chronicles 36:20 ("until the rule of the kingdom of Persia") and Ezra 1:1 ("in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia").
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6539. Paras מָּרַס28 proper name, of a territory Persia, περσῶν (genitive), Dan 11:2 τῇ…
מָּרַס28 proper name, of a territory Persia, περσῶν (genitive), Dan 11:2 τῇ Περσίδι (ᵐ5 and Θ), 2Ch 36:20 Μήδων (Old Persian Pârsa, Persian, Persia, SpiegAPK 231, New Persian , ; Arabic ; — ׳פ2Ch 36:22 +, מָּרָ֑ס 2Ch 36:20 +; — in late literature, 2Ch 36:20, 2Ch 36:22, 2Ch 36:22, 2Ch 36:23 = Ezr 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezr 1:2; Dan 10:1 Dan 10:11t. Ezra Daniel + (with מָדַי) Est 1:3, Est 1:14, Est 1:18, Est 1:19; Est 10:2; Dan 8:20; ׳פ Eze 27:10; Eze 38:5 is doubted by Toy (who, Eze 27:10, reads כּוּשׁ, after Gr), but Krae defends.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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