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# פָּרַס

Biblical Aramaic

**Persia** — used 6 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Persia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרַס: n.pr. terr. et gent. Persia Persians [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. terr. et gent. Persia (as kingdom), Persians (v. BH id.)—;פ׳ Dn 6:9, 13, 16; פָּרָ֑ס 5:28; Ezr 4:24; 6:14.

### Jastrow 1903

פָּרַס II: Persia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h.) pr. n. Persia. Esth. R. to I, 3 כשהמלכות במדי פ׳ טפילה לה כשהמלכות בפ׳ וכ׳ when the government is in Media, Persia is named as an attachment to it, and when the government is in Persia, Media is &c. Ib. למה קרין אותה פ׳ וכ׳ why is it called Paras?, v. פְּרוּסָה; a. fr.—\[Deut. R. s. 10, a. e. פ׳, a censorial change, for רומי.\].—Targ. II Chr. XXXVI, 20; 22; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Persians (4); of Persia (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/#tree)

פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* peres it.has.been.broken.in.two kingdom your and it.has.been.given to Medes and Persians

*JPS 1917:* PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

[Ezra 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.24/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֗יִן בְּטֵלַת֙ עֲבִידַ֣ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֔א דִּ֖י בִּירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וַהֲוָת֙ בָּֽטְלָ֔א עַ֚ד שְׁנַ֣ת תַּרְתֵּ֔ין לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָֽס׃פ

*Word for word:* then it.ceased the.work of.the.house of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem and it.was ceasing until year two of the.reign of.Darius the.king of.Persia

*JPS 1917:* Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).