Lexicon Koresh: a Pers. king Original Word: כּ֫וֹרֶשׁPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Koresh Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-resh) Short Definition: Cyrus NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitiona Pers. king NASB TranslationCyrus (15).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ and (Ezra 1:1,2) כֹּ֫רֶשׁ proper name, masculine Cyrus (Persian K'ur'u(š), Spieg APK 215; Babylonian Kuraš COT on Ezra 1:1, Dl in Baer Dn. p. x) — king of (Anzan = Susiana, Tiele Babylonian -Assyr. Geschichte. 469, and) Persia, conqueror of Babylon (Tiele ib. 468 ff.), restorer of Jews to Palestine Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1; Ezra 1:7; called מֶלֶךְ מָּרַס2Chronicles 36:22 (twice in verse); 2Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezra 1:2, also Ezra 1:8; Ezra 4:3,5; Daniel 10:1; simply הֵמֶּלֶךְ Daniel 1:21. כֹּרֶשׁ proper name, masculine see כּוֺרֶשׁ. כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ9 proper name, masculine Cyrus (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 6:28; Ezra 5:13 6t. Ezra. [כִּכַּר], כִּכְּ רִין see כרר. כֹּל see כלל.
Strong's Cyrus Or (Ezra 1:1 (last time), Ezra 1:2) Koresh {ko'-resh}; from the Persians; Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king -- Cyrus. see HEBREW 'ab |
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