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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 a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - “but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - Like valleys that stretch out,
Like gardens by the riverside,
Like aloes planted by the LORD,
Like cedars beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:20 - So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - “and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple,[fn] for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:5 - I made myself gardens and orchards, 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 plants are an orchard of pomegranates
With pleasant fruits,
Fragrant henna with spikenard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,
And as a garden that has no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the LORD will comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the LORD;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:5 - Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

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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 sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it;
The fir trees were not like its boughs,
And the chestnut[fn] trees were not like its branches;
No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,
So that all the trees of Eden envied it,
That were in the garden of God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like the Garden of Eden before them,
And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
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