Strong's #6539: Parac (pronounced paw-ras')
of foreign origin; Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants:--Persia, Persians.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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pâras
Persian = see 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
1a) 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
2) the people of the Persian empire
Part of Speech: noun proper territory or people
Relation: of foreign origin
Usage:
This word is used 28 times:
2 Chronicles 36:20: "until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:"
2 Chronicles 36:22: "year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah"
2 Chronicles 36:22: "the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,"
2 Chronicles 36:23: "saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD"
Ezra 1:1: "year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth"
Ezra 1:1: "the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all"
Ezra 1:2: "saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given"
Ezra 1:8: "Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer,"
Ezra 3:7: "according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia."
Ezra 4:3: "king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded"
Ezra 4:5: "the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king"
Ezra 4:5: "the reign of Darius king of Persia."
Ezra 4:7: "unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue,"
Ezra 7:1: "in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son"
Ezra 9:9: "unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up"
Esther 1:3: "his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces,"
Esther 1:14: "and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face,"
Esther 1:18: "Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's"
Esther 1:19: "commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not"
Esther 10:2: "of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?"
Ezekiel 27:10: " They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged"
Ezekiel 38:5: " Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:"
Daniel 8:20: "two horns are the kings of Media and Persia."
Daniel 10:1: "year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose"
Daniel 10:13: "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days:"
Daniel 10:13: "remained there with the kings of Persia."
Daniel 10:20: "to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince"
Daniel 11:2: "yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer"
