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# פַּרְסִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6542

**Persian** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Persian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6542/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְסִי: adj.gent. Persian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6542/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Persian;—הַפּ׳ Ne 12:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Persian (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.22/#tree)

הַלְוִיִּם֩ בִּימֵ֨י אֶלְיָשִׁ֜יב יוֹיָדָ֤ע וְיוֹחָנָן֙ וְיַדּ֔וּעַ כְּתוּבִ֖ים רָאשֵׁ֣י אָב֑וֹת וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים עַל־מַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ הַפָּֽרְסִֽי׃פ

*Word for word:* the Levites in the.days of.Eliashib Joiada and Johanan and Jaddua \[were\].recorded heads of.fathers and the priests on the.reign of.Darius the Persian

*JPS 1917:* The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded heads of fathers' houses; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6542.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6542/): 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).