Lexical Summary pardes: a preserve, park Original Word: פַרְדֵּסTransliteration: pardes Phonetic Spelling: (par-dace') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a preserve, park Meaning: a preserve, park Strong's Concordance forest, orchard Of foreign origin; a park -- forest, orchard. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6508. pardes מַּרְדֵּס noun [masculine] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in EwJahrb. see 162 f., compare SpiegAvesta i. 293; Persian pâlêz LagGes. Abh. 75, 211, Kurdish parês NöZMG xxxvi (1882), 182; hence Armenian partêz LagArm. Stud. § 1878, late Assyrian pardisu MeissnZA vi. 290, Arabic ; Greek παράδεισος; compare also DlPa 95 ff. DiGenesis 2:8); — ׳הַמּ Nehemiah 2:8 (containing trees); construct רִמּוֺנִים מַּרְדֵּס Song of Solomon 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); plural מַּרְדֵּסִים Ecclesiastes 2:5 (+ גַּנּוֺת). |
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