Lexical Definition

‎פַּרְדֵּס‎ pardêç (par-dace') park ^H:N-M
of foreign origin

forest, orchard.

• a park

1) park, preserve, enclosed garden, forest

See Greek: παράδεισος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎פַּרְדֵּס‎ noun [masculine] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in Ew^Jahrb. see 162 f., compare Spieg^{Avesta i. 293}; Persian pâlêz Lag^{Ges. Abh. 75, 211}, Kurdish parês Nö^{ZMG xxxvi (1882), 182}; hence Armenian partêz Lag^{Arm. Stud. § 1878}, late Assyrian pardisu Meissn^{ZA vi. 290}, Arabic ; Greek παράδεισος; compare also Dl^{Pa 95 ff.} Di^{Gen 2:8}); — ‎׳‎‎הַפּ‎ Neh 2:8 (containing trees); construct ‎פַּרְדֵּס רִמּוֺנִים‎ Song 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); plural ‎פַּרְדֵּסִים‎ Eccl 2:5 (+ ‎גַּנּוֺת‎).

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