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Lexicon :: Strong's H6539 - pāras

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פָּרַס
Transliteration
pāras
Pronunciation
paw-ras'
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Part of Speech
proper noun with reference to territory and people
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign origin
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TWOT Reference: 1820

Strong’s Definitions

פָּרַס Pâraç, paw-ras'; of foreign origin; Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants:—Persia, Persians.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's H6539 in the following manner: Persia (27x), Persian (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's H6539 in the following manner: Persia (27x), Persian (1x).

  1. Persia = "pure" or "splendid"

    1. the empire Persia; encompassed the territory from India on the east to Egypt and Thrace on the west, and included, besides portions of Europe and Africa, the whole of western Asia between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian and the Jaxartes on the north, the Arabian desert, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean on the south

      1. Persia proper was bounded on the west by Susiana or Elam, on the north by Media, on the south by the Persian Gulf and on the east by Carmania Persian = see Persia "pure" or "splendid"

    2. the people of the Persian empire

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פָּרַס Pâraç, paw-ras'; of foreign origin; Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants:—Persia, Persians.
STRONGS H6539: Abbreviations
פָּרַס28 proper name, of a territory Persia, περσῶν (genitive), Daniel 11:2 τῇ Περσίδι (Greek Version of the LXX and Θ), 2 Chronicles 36:20 Μήδων (Old Persian Pârsa, Persian, Persia, SpiegAPK 231, New Persian bdb082801, bdb082802; Arabic bdb082803; — פ׳ 2 Chronicles 36:22 +, פָּרָ֑ס 2 Chronicles 36:20 +; — in late literature, 2 Chronicles 36:20, 2 Chronicles 36:22, 22, 23 = Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezra 1:2; Daniel 10:1 + 11 times Ezra Daniel + (with מָדַי) Esther 1:3, 14, 18, 19; Esther 10:2; Daniel 8:20; פ׳ Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 38:5 is doubted by Toy (who, Ezekiel 27:10, reads כּוּשׁ, after Gr), but Krae defends.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H6540.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Chronicles

36:20; 36:20; 36:20; 36:22; 36:22; 36:22; 36:23

Ezra

1:1; 1:2

Esther

1:3; 1:14; 1:18; 1:19; 10:2

Ezekiel

27:10; 27:10; 38:5

Daniel

8:20; 10:1; 11:2

H6539

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6539 matches the Hebrew פָּרַס (pāras),
which occurs 28 times in 24 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And he carried away the remnant to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22 - In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, after the fulfilment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and told him to make proclamation in writing throughout all his kingdom, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23 - Thus says Cyrus king of the Persians to all the kingdoms of the earth, The Lord God of heaven has given me power, and he has commanded me to build a house to him in Jerusalem, in Judea. Who is there of you of all his people? his God shall be with him, and let him go up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he issued a proclamation through all his kingdom, and that in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - Thus said Cyrus king of the Persians, The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has given me a charge to build him a house in Jerusalem that is in Judea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:8 - And Cyrus king of the Persians brought them out by the hand of Mithradates the treasurer, and he numbered them to Sasabasar, the chief man of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - And they gave money to the stone-hewers and carpenters, and meat and drink, and oil, to the Sidonians, and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant of Cyrus king of the Persians to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - Then Zorobabel, and Jesus and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel said to them, It is not for us and you to build a house to our God, for we ourselves will build together to the Lord our God, as Cyrus the king of the Persians commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5 - and continued hiring persons against them, plotting to frustrate their counsel, all the days of Cyrus king of the Persians, and until the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:7 - And in the days of Arthasastha, Tabeel wrote peaceably to Mithradates and to the rest of his fellow-servants: the tribute-gatherer wrote to Arthasastha king of the Persians a writing in the Syrian tongue, and the same interpreted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:1 - Now after these things, in the reign of Arthasastha king of the Persians, came up Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Chelcias,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - For we are slaves, yet in our servitude the Lord our God has not deserted us; and he has extended favour to us in the sight of the kings of the Persians, to give us a quickening, that they should raise up the house of our God, and restore the desolate places of it, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:3 - in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to his friends, and the other nations, and to the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the satraps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - So Arkesæus, and Sarsathæus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:18 - so this day shall the other ladies of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, dare in the same way to dishonour their husbands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - If then it seem good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: and let not the queen come in to him any more; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:2 - And as for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:10 - Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:20 - The ram which thou sawest that had the horns is the king of the Medes and Persians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:1 - In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Baltasar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:13 - But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians withstood me twenty-one days: and behold, Michael, one of the princes, came to help me; and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of the Persians:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:20 - And he said, Knowest thou, wherefore I am come to thee? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians: and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:2 - And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.
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