G3857GreekParadeísῳ
Παραδείσῳ
a park, i.e., (specially), an eden (place of future happiness, "paradise")
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Total Occurrences
3
Books
0
Old Testament
3
New Testament
Detailed Definition
- 1among the persians a grand enclosure or preserve, hunting ground, park, shady and well watered, in which wild animals, were kept for the hunt; it was enclosed by walls and furnished with towers for the hunters
- 2grove, park
- 3a garden, pleasure ground
- 4the part of hades which was thought by the later jews to be the abode of the souls of pious until the resurrection: but some understand this to be a heavenly paradise
- 5the upper regions of the heavens
Etymology & Derivation
of middle eastern origin (compare h6508)