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# פָּרַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6539

**Persia** — used 28 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

Persia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6539/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרַס: n.pr.terr. Persia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6539/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. Persia, Περσῶν (genit.), Dn 11:2 τῇ Περσίδι (𝔊 et Θ), 2 Ch 36:20 Μήδων (OPers. Pârsa, Persian, Persia, SpiegAPK 231, NPers. پَارْسِ, فَارْسِ; Arabic فَارِسُ );—פ׳ 2 Ch 36:22 +, פָּרָ֑ס v 20 +;—in late lit., 2 Ch 36:20, v 22(×2), 23 = Ezr 1:1(×2), 2; Dn 10:1 + 11 times Ezr Dn + (c. מָדַי) Est 1:3, 14, 18, 19; 10:2; Dn 8:20; פ׳ Ez 27:10; 38:5 is doubted by Toy (who, 27:10, reads כּוּשׁ, after Gr), but Krae defends.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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 (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Persia (23); Persia (5).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 38:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.5/#tree)

פָּרַ֛ס כּ֥וּשׁ וּפ֖וּט אִתָּ֑ם כֻּלָּ֖ם מָגֵ֥ן וְכוֹבָֽע׃

*Word for word:* Persia Cush and Put \[will be\].with.them of.them all shield and helmet

*JPS 1917:* Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

[Daniel 8:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.20/#tree)

הָאַ֥יִל אֲשֶׁר־רָאִ֖יתָ בַּ֣עַל הַקְּרָנָ֑יִם מַלְכֵ֖י מָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* the ram which you.saw the.possessor of the.two.horns \[is\].the.kings of.Media and Persia

*JPS 1917:* The ram which thou sawest having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6539.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6539/): 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).