Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H6539
פָּרַס
Paraspaw-ras'
Persia
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Pâraç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6539is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6539
Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants
The King James renders it: Persia, Persians.
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
Paras is rendered "Persia". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 36:20Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
2 Chronicles 36:20פָּרָֽס׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's twenty-eight 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
- Persia25
- and Persia2
- for Persia1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פָּרַשׂ | paras | to spread | Uses67 |
| פָּרָשׁ | parash | horse | Uses57 |
| פָּרַר | parar | to break | Uses50 |
| פָּרַץ | parats | to break through | Uses49 |
| פָּרַח | parach | to sprout | Uses36 |
| פָּרָה | parah | be fruitful | Uses29 |
| פָּרַד | parad | to separate | Uses26 |
| פָּרָה | parah | heifer | Uses26 |
| פָּרַע | para | to lead | Uses16 |
| פָּרַס | paras | to divide | Uses14 |
| פָּרַק | paraq | to tear | Uses10 |
| פָּרָשׁ | parash | to declare | Uses5 |
and 7 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- פָּרַ֔ס8
- פָּרָ֑ס3
- פָּרָֽס׃3
- וּפָרָֽס׃2
- פָּרַ֗ס2
- פָּרַ֣ס2
- לְפָרַ֗ס1
- פָרַ֜ס1
- פָּרַ֨ס1
- פָּרַ֛ס1
- פָּרַ֖ס1
- פָֽרַס־1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)25HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
2 Chronicles
four uses
Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- פָּרָֽס׃parasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
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:
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
“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.’”
- פָּרַ֗סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Ezra
eleven 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:
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
“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.
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
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.
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
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.
- פָּרַ֖סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
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.”
- פָּרָֽס׃parasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
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.
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
- פָּרָֽס׃parasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
- פָּרָ֑סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
- פָּרָ֑סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
- פָרַ֜סfarasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Esther
five uses
In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
- פָּרַ֣סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
- פָּרַ֣סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.
- פָּֽרַס־paras-proper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
- פָֽרַס־faras-proper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
- וּפָרָֽס׃ufarasconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Persia
Ezekiel
two uses
Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.
- פָּרַ֨סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them, all with shields and helmets,
- פָּרַ֛סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Daniel
six uses
The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
- וּפָרָֽס׃ufarasconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Persia
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.
- פָּרַ֔סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.
- פָּרַ֗סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
- פָרָֽס׃farasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
“Do you know why I have come to you?” he said. “I must return at once to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I have gone forth, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
- פָּרָ֑סparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Now then, I will tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. By the power of his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.
- לְפָרַ֗סlefaraspreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Persia
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.