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Word

פָּרַס

Pâraç · H6540 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. Persia, Persian

    A nation and its territory, which was greatly expanded during the reign of Cyrus I

    Examples

    Ezra 4:24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

    Ezra 6:14 And the elders of the Jews were successful in building through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they finished building following the command of the God of Israel and the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

    Daniel 5:28 “‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

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 · H6539 · Persia, Persian
פָּרַס (Pâraç, H6539) פָּרַס is a variant spelling of the same name as פָּרַס (Pâraç, H6540) פָּרַס (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of Groups003001006
Ezra 4:24 recounts that work on the temple was stopped “until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.”
Names of Locations003001010
This same word in Ezra 4:24 — “Persia” — carries the identical sense as well, since the same name denotes both the people group and the land they inhabit.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6540. Paras מָּרַס proper name, of a territory and people Persia (as kingdom), Persians…
H6540. Paras
מָּרַס proper name, of a territory and people Persia (as kingdom), Persians (see Biblical Hebrew id.); — ׳פ Dan 6:9; Dan 6:13; Dan 6:16; מָּרָ֑ס Dan 5:28; Ezr 4:24; Ezr 6:14.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

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