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Strong's #3566 - כֹּרֶשׁ

Transliteration
Kôwresh
Phonetics
ko'-resh, ko'-resh
Origin
from the Persians
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
TWOT
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Cyrus = “posses thou the furnace”

1) the king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon; first ruler of Persia to make a decree allowing the Israelite exiles to return to Jerusalem

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (15)
2 Chronicles 3
Ezra 8
Isaiah 2
Daniel 2
NAS (15)
2 Chronicles 3
Ezra 8
Isaiah 2
Daniel 2
HCS (15)
2 Chronicles 3
Ezra 8
Isaiah 2
Daniel 2
BSB (15)
2 Chronicles 3
Ezra 8
Isaiah 2
Daniel 2
ESV (15)
2 Chronicles 3
Ezra 8
Isaiah 2
Daniel 2
WEB (15)
2 Chronicles 3
Ezra 8
Isaiah 2
Daniel 2
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ and ( Ezra 1:1,2) כֹּ֫רֶשׁ proper name, masculine Cyrus (Persian K'ur'u(š), Spieg APK 215; Babylonian Kuraš COT on Ezra 1:1, Dl in Baer Dn. p. x) — king of (Anzan = Susiana, Tiele Babylonian -Assyr. Geschichte. 469, and) Persia, conqueror of Babylon (Tiele ib. 468 ff.), restorer of Jews to Palestine Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1; Ezra 1:7; called מֶלֶךְמָּרַס 2 Chronicles 36:22 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezra 1:2, also Ezra 1:8; Ezra 4:3,5; Daniel 10:1; simply הֵמֶּלֶךְ Daniel 1:21.

כֹּרֶשׁ proper name, masculine see כּוֺרֶשׁ.

כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ9 proper name, masculine Cyrus (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 6:28; Ezra 5:13 6t. Ezra.

[כִּכַּר], כִּכְּ רִין see כרר. כֹּל see כלל.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

כֹּרֶשׁ pr.n. Cyrus, king of Persia, Ezra 1:1, Ezra 1:7, Ezra 1:8; Isaiah 44:28, 45:1 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23 2 Chronicles 36:23; Daniel 1:21, 6:29 10:1. The Greeks have remarked that the Persians called the sun by this name (see Ctesias ap. Plut. Artax. Opp. t. i. p. 1012, Etym. M. Κῦρος, κοῦρος, ἥλιος), and rightly so; for it is the Zend. khoro, hur, ahurô; Pers. خور, هور (compare Sanscr. sûrg, sûri, and the word most frequently used, sûrja); ־ֶשׁ is a termination added, as in דַּרְיָוֶשׁ.-As to the opinion lately brought forward by U. Möller (De Authentia Oraculorum Esaiæ, Havniæ, 1825, p. 209, sq.), that the name כֹּרֶשׁ in Isaiah does not signify the king Cyrus, but the people of Israel (i.q. כּשֶׁר uprightness), it is needless to do more than mention it.


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List of Word Forms
כֹּ֚רֶשׁ כֹּ֣רֶשׁ כּ֔וֹרֶשׁ כּ֚וֹרֶשׁ כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ ׀ כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ כורש כרש לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙ לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ לכורש kō·reš kō·w·reš kōreš Koresh kōwreš lə·ḵō·w·reš leChoresh ləḵōwreš
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