פַּרְדֵּס
pardes · park, forest
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6508 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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pardes (פַּרְדֵּס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “park, forest”.
Park: enclosed land with trees. A word of Persian origin ("pardes").
How to say it
par·des
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Enclosed ground with trees.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- park ×2
- parks ×1
Where it appears
- Nehemiah 2:8
and a letter to Asaph, keeper of the park that belongs to the king, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress that belongs to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will go into.” And the king granted it to me, according to the good hand of my Elohim upon me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them every kind of fruit tree;
- Song of Songs 4:13
Your shoots are a park of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard,