STRONGS NUMBER H6508


Word Summary
pardes: a preserve, park
Original Word: פַרְדֵּס
Transliteration: pardes
Phonetic Spelling: (par-dace')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a preserve, park
Meaning: a preserve, park
Strong's Concordance
forest, orchard

Of foreign origin; a park -- forest, orchard.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6508. pardes

מַּרְדֵּסnoun [masculine] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in EwJahrb. see 162 f., compare SpiegAvesta i. 293; Persian pâlêz LagGes. Abh. 75, 211, Kurdish parêsZMG xxxvi (1882), 182; hence Armenian partêz LagArm. Stud. § 1878, late Assyrian pardisu MeissnZA vi. 290, Arabic ; Greek παράδεισος; compare also DlPa 95 ff. DiGenesis 2:8); — ׳הַמּNehemiah 2:8 (containing trees); construct רִמּוֺנִים מַּרְדֵּסSong of Solomon 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); plural מַּרְדֵּסִיםEcclesiastes 2:5 (+ גַּנּוֺת‎).