Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3566
כּוֹרֶשׁ
Koreshko'-resh
Cyrus
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kôwresh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3566is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3566
Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king
The King James renders it: Cyrus.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Koresh is rendered "Cyrus". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 36:22In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
2 Chronicles 36:22לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's fifteen uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Cyrus9
- of Cyrus5
- to Cyrus1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כּוֹכָב | kokab | star | Uses37 |
| כּוֹס | kos | cup | Uses34 |
| כּוֹבַע | koba | helmet | Uses6 |
| כּוֹשָׁרָה | kosharah | prosperity | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙4
- כּ֚וֹרֶשׁ2
- כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ2
- כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ1
- כּ֔וֹרֶשׁ1
- כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ׀1
- כֹּ֣רֶשׁ1
- כֹּ֚רֶשׁ1
- לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ1
- לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)9HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)6HR/Npm
2 Chronicles
three uses
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙lekhoreshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Cyrus
- כּ֣וֹרֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”
- כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ׀koreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
Ezra
eight uses
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙lekhoreshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Cyrus
- כֹּ֣רֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.
- כֹּ֚רֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.
- כּ֔וֹרֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
Cyrus king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.
- כּ֚וֹרֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
- כּ֥וֹרֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”
- כּ֥וֹרֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- כּ֚וֹרֶשׁkoreshproper noun (a name)tagged: Cyrus
Isaiah
two uses
who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”
- לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙lekhoreshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Cyrus
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁlekhoreshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Cyrus
Daniel
two uses
And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.
- לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁlekhoreshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Cyrus
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, and it concerned a great conflict. And the understanding of the message was given to him in a vision.
- לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙lekhoreshpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Cyrus
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.