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Strong's #3857: paradeisos (pronounced par-ad'-i-sos)

of Oriental origin (compare 6508); a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise"):--paradise.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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paradeisos

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

2a) 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

Part of Speech: noun masculine




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Luke 23:43: "with me in paradise."
2 Corinthians 12:4: "How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words,"
Revelation 2:7: "in the midst of the paradise of God."









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