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Strong's #3566 - כֹּרֶשׁ
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- Cyrus = "posses thou the furnace"
- the king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon; first ruler of Persia to make a decree allowing the Israelite exiles to return to Jerusalem
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כֹּרֶשׁ proper name, masculine see כּוֺרֶשׁ.
כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ9 proper name, masculine Cyrus (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 6:28; Ezra 5:13 6t. Ezra.
[כִּכַּר], כִּכְּ רִין see כרר. כֹּל see כלל.
כֹּרֶשׁ pr.n. Cyrus, king of Persia, Ezra 1:1, Ezra 1:7, Ezra 1:8; Isaiah 44:28, 45:1 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23 2 Chronicles 36:23; Daniel 1:21, 6:29 10:1. The Greeks have remarked that the Persians called the sun by this name (see Ctesias ap. Plut. Artax. Opp. t. i. p. 1012, Etym. M. Κῦρος, κοῦρος, ἥλιος), and rightly so; for it is the Zend. khoro, hur, ahurô; Pers. خور, هور (compare Sanscr. sûrg, sûri, and the word most frequently used, sûrja); ־ֶשׁ is a termination added, as in דַּרְיָוֶשׁ.-As to the opinion lately brought forward by U. Möller (De Authentia Oraculorum Esaiæ, Havniæ, 1825, p. 209, sq.), that the name כֹּרֶשׁ in Isaiah does not signify the king Cyrus, but the people of Israel (i.q. כּשֶׁר uprightness), it is needless to do more than mention it.
