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Lexicon :: Strong's H6540 - 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)
Corresponding to פָּרַס (H6539)
Strong’s Definitions

פָּרַס Pâraç, paw-ras'; (Aramaic) corresponding to H6539:—Persia, Persians.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H6540 in the following manner: Persians (4x), Persia (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H6540 in the following manner: Persians (4x), Persia (2x).
  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'; (Aramaic) corresponding to H6539:—Persia, Persians.
STRONGS H6540: Abbreviations

Biblical Aramaic

פָּרַס proper name, of a territory and people Persia (as kingdom), Persians (see Biblical Hebrew H6539 id.); — פ׳ Daniel 6:9; Daniel 6:13; Daniel 6:16; פָּרָ֑ס Daniel 5:28; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:14.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

4:24; 6:14

Daniel

5:28; 6:9; 6:13; 6:16

H6540

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6540 matches the Hebrew פָּרַס (pāras),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24 - So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14 - The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:28 - As for peres - your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8 - Now let the king issue a written interdict so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - So they approached the king and said to him, "Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?" The king replied, "That is correct, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15 - Then those men came by collusion to the king and said to him, "Recall, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed."
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