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Torrey Topical Textbook
• Medo-Persian Kingdom
Dictionaries
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Persia, Persians
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Persia, Persians
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Persian Rite
Webster Dictionary
• Persian
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Persian Gulf
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Persian Language and Literature (Ancient):
• Persian Religion (Ancient)
• Persians
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Persians
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Adamah,persian Mythology
• Dews, in Persian Mythology
• Judaeo-Persian Version of the Scriptures
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Persian Gulf
• Persian Wars
• Persians
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Aphraates, the Persian Sage
• Judæo-Persian
• Judæo-Persian Literature
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• פָּרַס
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• פָּרְסִי
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(Heb. Parsi', פִּרְסַי; Sept. Περσής; Vulg. Perses), the name of the people who inhabited the country called above "Persia Proper," and who thence conquered a mighty empire. There is reason to believe that the Persians were of the same race as the Medes, both being branches of the great Aryan stock, which under various names established their sway over the whole tract between Mesopotamia and Burmah. The native form of the name is Parsa, which the Hebrew פִּרְסַי fairly represents, and which remains but little changed in the modern ‘ Parsee." It is conjectured to signify "the Tigers." (See PERSIA).