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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 BoxGen 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[fn] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - “Like valleys they spread out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:20 - Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5 - I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13 - Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 BoxEze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.[fn] Your settings and mountings[fn] were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the junipers equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches— no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste— nothing escapes them.
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