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# פַּרְדֵּס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6508

**preserve** — used 3 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

preserve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6508/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְדֵּס: preserve, park [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6508/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in EwJarhb. v. 162f., cf. SpiegAvesta i, 293; Pers. پاليز, pâlêz LagGes. Abh. 75, 211, Kurd. parês NöZMG xxxvi (1882), 182; hence Armenian paṛtêz LagArm. Stud. § 1878, late Assyrian pardîsu MeissnZA vi. 290, Arabic فِرْدَوْسٌ; Gk. παράδεισος; cf. also DlPa 95 ff. Di Gn 2:8);—הַפּ׳ Ne 2:8 (containing trees); cstr. פַּרְדֵּס רִמּוֹנִים Ct 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); pl. פַּרְדֵּסִים Ec 2:5 (+ גַּנּוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] a garden (1); forest (1); parks (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.13/#tree)

שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙ פַּרְדֵּ֣ס רִמּוֹנִ֔ים עִ֖ם פְּרִ֣י מְגָדִ֑ים כְּפָרִ֖ים עִם־נְרָדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* shoots your \[are\].a.garden of.pomegranates with fruit of.excellence(s) henna.plants with nard.plants

*JPS 1917:* Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,

[Ecclesiastes 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.5/#tree)

עָשִׂ֣יתִי לִ֔י גַּנּ֖וֹת וּפַרְדֵּסִ֑ים וְנָטַ֥עְתִּי בָהֶ֖ם עֵ֥ץ כָּל־פֶּֽרִי׃

*Word for word:* I.made for myself gardens and parks and I.planted in them tree\[s\] of.every fruit

*JPS 1917:* I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6508/): 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).