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Strong's #6539 - פָּרַס

Transliteration
Pâraç
Phonetics
paw-ras'
Origin
of foreign origin
Parts of Speech
Proper Name
TWOT
1820
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

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

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (28)
2 Chronicles 4
Ezra 11
Esther 5
Ezekiel 2
Daniel 6
NAS (28)
2 Chronicles 4
Ezra 11
Esther 5
Ezekiel 2
Daniel 6
HCS (27)
2 Chronicles 4
Ezra 10
Esther 5
Ezekiel 2
Daniel 6
BSB (28)
2 Chronicles 4
Ezra 11
Esther 5
Ezekiel 2
Daniel 6
ESV (28)
2 Chronicles 4
Ezra 11
Esther 5
Ezekiel 2
Daniel 6
WEB (28)
2 Chronicles 4
Ezra 11
Esther 5
Ezekiel 2
Daniel 6
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 מָּרַס28 proper name, of a territory Persia, περσῶν (genitive), Daniel 11:2 τῇ Περσίδι (ᵐ5 and Θ), 2 Chronicles 36:20 Μήδων (Old Persian Pârsa, Persian, Persia, Spieg APK 231, New Persian , ; Arabic ; — ׳פ 2 Chronicles 36:22 +, מָּרָ֑ס 2 Chronicles 36:20 +; — in late literature, 2 Chronicles 36:20,2Chronicles 36:22,22, 23 = Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezra 1:2; Daniel 10:1 11t. Ezra Daniel + (with מָדַי) Esther 1:3,14,18,19; Esther 10:2; Daniel 8:20; ׳פ Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 38:5 is doubted by Toy (who, Ezekiel 27:10, reads כּוּשׁ, after Gr), but Krae defends.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

פָּרַס to break, only in Kal in the phrase פָּרַס לֶחֶם לְ to break one’s bread to any one; i.e. to distribute it, Isaiah 58:7 and without לֶחֶם Jerem. 16:7. Compare פָּרַשׁ No. 1.

Hiphil

(1) to cleave, to divide. Levit. 11:4, וּפַרְסָה אֵינֶנּוּ מַפְרִיס “but cleaveth not the hoof,” i.e. has not the hoof altogether cloven. Elsewhere

(2) הִפְרִיס פַּרְסָה Levit. 11:3, Leviticus 11:6, Leviticus 11:7, 26 Leviticus 11:26; Deuteronomy 14:7, Deuteronomy 14:8 and without פַּרְסָה is nothing more than to have (pr. to make or produce) a cloven hoof.

Derivatives, פֶּרֶס, פַּרְסָה.

פָּרַס in pause פָּרָ֑ס pr.n. Heb. and Ch. Persia, the Persians, 2 Chronicles 36:20, 22 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1, 4:5, seqq.; 6:14 Daniel 5:28, 6:9, 13. Pers. يارس, نارس, فرس. Hence Gent. noun פַּרְסִי a Persian, Nehem. 12:22 and Ch. emphat. פַּרְסָיָא Dan. 6:29.


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List of Word Forms
וּפָרָֽס׃ ופרס׃ לְפָרַ֗ס לפרס פָּֽרַס־ פָּרַ֔ס פָּרַ֖ס פָּרַ֗ס פָּרַ֛ס פָּרַ֣ס פָּרַ֨ס פָּרָ֑ס פָּרָֽס׃ פָֽרַס־ פָרַ֜ס פָרָֽס׃ פרס פרס־ פרס׃ faRas lə·p̄ā·ras lefaRas ləp̄āras pā·ras pā·rās p̄ā·ras p̄ā·rās pā·ras- p̄ā·ras- paRas pāras pārās p̄āras p̄ārās pāras- p̄āras- ū·p̄ā·rās ufaRas ūp̄ārās
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