Strong's #6540: Parac (pronounced paw-ras')

(Aramaic) corresponding to 6539:--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: corresponding to H6539

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Ezra 4:24: "of the reign of Darius king of Persia."
Ezra 6:14: "and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia."
Daniel 5:28: "is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."
Daniel 6:8: "changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."
Daniel 6:12: "is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."
Daniel 6:15: "that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree"