Bible Lexicons

3049) xdrp (פרדס PRDS) AC: ? CO: Orchard AB: ?

N^m ) xdrp (פרדס PRDS) - Orchard: KJV (3): orchard, forest - Strongs: H6508 (פַּרְדֵּס)

 מַּרְדֵּס noun [masculine] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in Ew ^Jahrb. see 162f., compare Spieg ^{Avesta i. 293}; Persian pâlêz Lag ^{Ges. Abh. 75,211}, Kurdish parês Nö ^{ZMG xxxvi (1882), 182}; hence Armenian partêz Lag ^{Arm. Stud. § 1878}, late Assyrian pardisu Meissn ^{ZA vi. 290}, Arabic ; Greek παράδεισος; compare also Dl ^{Pa 95 ff.} Di ^{Genesis 2:8}); — ׳הַמּ Nehemiah 2:8 (containing trees); construct מַּרְדֵּס רִמּוֺנִים Song of Solomon 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); plural מַּרְדֵּסִים Ecclesiastes 2:5 (+ גַּנּוֺת).

פַּרְדֵּס m. a garden, a plantation, Song of Solomon 4:13; Nehemiah 2:8 pl. Ecclesiastes 2:5. To this answers the Gr. παράδεισος, a word properly used of the plantations and places for animals which used to surround the palaces of Persian kings (Xenoph. Œcon. iv. 13; Cyropæd. i. 3, 12; Polluc. Ohomast. ix. 3, § 3). The origin of the word is, however, not to be sought for in Greek or in Hebrew, but in the languages of eastern Asia; compare Sansc. paradêça and paradîça, high ground, well tilled, Armen. պաըտէգ a garden close to a house, laid out and planted for use and ornament (see Schroederi Dissert. Thes. præmissa, p. 56); whence have sprung the Syr. ܦܰܪܕܰܝܣܐܳ and Arab. فِرْدَوْسُ (see Kamûs, i. p. 784).

הַפַּרְדֵּ֜ס הפרדס וּפַרְדֵּסִ֑ים ופרדסים פַּרְדֵּ֣ס פרדס hap·par·dês happarDes happardês par·dês parDes pardês ū·p̄ar·dê·sîm ufardeSim ūp̄ardêsîm