Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H6540
פָּרַס
Paraspaw-ras'
Persia
6 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 H6540is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6540
{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 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:24Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4:24פָּרָֽס׃ פ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and Persians4
- Persia2
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וּפָרַ֖ס2
- וּפָרַ֔ס1
- וּפָרָֽס׃1
- פָּרָֽס׃1
- פָּרָֽס׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4AC/Npl
- proper noun (a name)2ANpl
Ezra
two uses
Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- פָּרָֽס׃ פparasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.
- פָּרָֽס׃parasproper noun (a name)tagged: Persia
Daniel
four uses
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- וּפָרָֽס׃ufarasconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Persians
Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
- וּפָרַ֖סufarasconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Persians
So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”
- וּפָרַ֖סufarasconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Persians
Then the men approached the king together and said to him, “Remember, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or ordinance established by the king can be changed.”
- וּפָרַ֔סufarasconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Persians
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 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.