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# כּוֹרֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3566

**Cyrus** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Cyrus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3566/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ: n.pr.m. Cyrus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3566/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Ezr 1:1, 2) כֹּ֫רֶשׁ n.pr.m. Cyrus (Pers. Kʾurʾu, SpiegAPK 215; Bab. Kuraš COT on Ezr 1:1, Dl in Baer Dn. p. x)—king of (Anzan = Susiana, Tiele Bab.-Assyr. Gesch. 469, and) Persia, conqueror of Babylon (Tiele ib; 468 ff.), restorer of Jews to Palestine Is 44:28; 45:1 Ezr 1:7; called מֶלֶךְ פָּרַס 2 Ch 36:22(×2), 23 Ezr 1:1(×2), 2 also Ezr 1:8; 4:3, 5 Dn 10:1; simply הַמֶּלֶךְ Dn 1:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Cyrus (11); of Cyrus (4).

## In the verses

[Daniel 1:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.21/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ דָּֽנִיֵּ֔אל עַד־שְׁנַ֥ת אַחַ֖ת לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.was Daniel until year one of Cyrus the king

*JPS 1917:* And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

[Ezra 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.8/#tree)

וַיּֽוֹצִיאֵ֗םכּ֚וֹרֶשׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס עַל־יַ֖ד מִתְרְדָ֣ת הַגִּזְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּסְפְּרֵם֙ לְשֵׁשְׁבַּצַּ֔ר הַנָּשִׂ֖יא לִיהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he brought.them.out Cyrus the.king of.Persia on the.hand of.Mithredath the treasurer and he counted.them.out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah

*JPS 1917:* even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3566.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3566/): 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).