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Lexicon :: Strong's G3857 - paradeisos

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παράδεισος
Transliteration
paradeisos (Key)
Pronunciation
par-ad'-i-sos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Oriental origin cf פַּרְדֵּס (H6508)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:765,777

Strong’s Definitions

παράδεισος parádeisos, par-ad'-i-sos; of Oriental origin (compare H6508); a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise"):—paradise.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3857 in the following manner: paradise (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3857 in the following manner: paradise (3x).

  1. among the Persians a grand enclosure or preserve, hunting ground, park, shady and well watered, in which wild animals, were kept for the hunt; it was enclosed by walls and furnished with towers for the hunters

  2. a garden, pleasure ground

    1. grove, park

  3. the part of Hades which was thought by the later Jews to be the abode of the souls of pious until the resurrection: but some understand this to be a heavenly paradise

  4. the upper regions of the heavens. According to the early church Fathers, the paradise in which our first parents dwelt before the fall still exists, neither on the earth or in the heavens, but above and beyond the world

  5. heaven

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παράδεισος parádeisos, par-ad'-i-sos; of Oriental origin (compare H6508); a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise"):—paradise.
STRONGS G3857:
παράδεισος, παραδείσου, ὁ (thought by most to be of Persian orion, by others of Armenian, cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 1124; (B. D., under the word; especially Fried. Delitzsch, We lag das Paradies? Leipzig 1881, pp. 95-97; cf. Max Müller, Selected Essays, i., 129f)),
1. among the Persians a grand enclosure or preserve, hunting-ground, park, shady and well-watered, in which wild animals were kept for the hunt; it was enclosed by walls and furnished with towers for the hunters: Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 14; (1, 4, 5); 8, 1, 38; oec. 4, 13 and 14; anab. 1, 2, 7, 9; Theophrastus, h. pl. 5, 8, 1; Diodorus 16, 41; 14, 80; Pint. Artax. 25, cf. Curt; 8, 1, 11.
2. universally, a garden, pleasure-ground; grove, park: Lucian, v. h. 2, 23; Aelian v. h. 1, 33; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 14, 4; 8, 7, 3; 9, 10, 4; 10, 3, 2 and 11, 1; b. j. 6, 1, 1; (c. Apion. 1, 19, 9 (where cf. Müller)); Susanna 4, 7, 15, etc.; Sir. 24:30; and so it passed into the Hebrew language, פַּרְדֵּס, Nehemiah 2:8; Ecclesiastes 2:5; Song of Solomon 4:13; besides in the Sept. mostly for גַּן; thus, for that delightful region, 'the garden of Eden,' in which our first parents dwelt before the fall: Genesis 2:8ff; 3:1ff.
3. that part of Hades which was thought by the later Jews to be the abode of the souls of the pious until the resurrection: Luke 23:43, cf. 16:23f. But some (e. g. Dillmann (as below, p. 379)) understand that passage of the heavenly paradise.
4. an upper region in the heavens: 2 Corinthians 12:4 (where some maintain, others deny, that the term is equivalent to ὁ τρίτος οὐρανός in 2 Corinthians 12:2); with the addition of τοῦ Θεοῦ, genitive of possessor, the abode of God and heavenly beings, to which true Christians will be taken after death, Revelation 2:7 (cf. Genesis 13:10; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:8). According to the opinion of many of the church Fathers, the paradise in which our first parents dwelt before the fall still exists, neither on earth nor in the heavens, but above and beyond the world; cf. Thilo, Cod. apocr. Nov. Test., on Evang. Nicod. c. xxv., p. 748ff; and Bleek thinks that the word ought to be taken in this sense in Revelation 2:7. Cf. Dillmann under the word Paradies in Schenkel iv. 377ff; also Hilgenfeld, Die Clement. Recogn. und Hom., p. 87f; Klöpper on 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, p. 507ff ((Göttingen, 1869). See also B. D., under the word; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word; Hamburger, Real-Encyclopädie, Abtheil. ii, under the word.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
2:8; 3:1; 13:10
Nehemiah
2:8
Ecclesiastes
2:5
Song of Songs
4:13
Ezekiel
28:13; 31:8
Luke
16:23; 23:43
2 Corinthians
12:2; 12:2; 12:3; 12:4; 12:4
Revelation
2:7; 2:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3857 matches the Greek παράδεισος (paradeisos),
which occurs 27 times in 25 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - Then the LORD God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, 'You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the LORD obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river's side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:20 - Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king's nature preserve, so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall and for the house to which I go." So the king granted me these requests, for the good hand of my God was on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5 - I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13 - Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - Certainly the LORD will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the LORD. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:5 - 'Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and emerald, the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; your settings and mounts were made of gold. On the day you were created they were prepared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness - for nothing escapes them!
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