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Strong's #3566: Kowresh (pronounced ko'-resh)

or (Ezra 1:1 (last time),2) Koresh {ko'-resh}; from the Persians; Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king:--Cyrus.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁ / ּׁ

kôresh

Cyrus = "posses thou the furnace"

1) the king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon; first ruler of Persia to make a decree allowing the Israelite exiles to return to Jerusalem

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from the Persians



Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

2 Chronicles 36:22: "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth"
2 Chronicles 36:22: "stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation"
2 Chronicles 36:23: "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth"
Ezra 1:1: "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth"
Ezra 1:1: "the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation"
Ezra 1:2: "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven"
Ezra 1:7: " Also Cyrus the king the vessels of the house of the LORD, which"
Ezra 1:8: " Even those did Cyrus king bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer,"
Ezra 3:7: "the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia."
Ezra 4:3: "of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded"
Ezra 4:5: "their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign"
Isaiah 44:28: "That saith of Cyrus, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem,"
Isaiah 45:1: "saith to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue"
Daniel 1:21: "the first year of king Cyrus."
Daniel 10:1: "In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel,"









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