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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Greek - English Dictionary

G3857 - Paradise

Strong's No.:G3857

Greek:παράδεισος

Transliteration:paradeisos

Phonetic:par-ad'-i-sos

Word Origin:Of Oriental origin (compare [H6508])

Bible Usage:paradise.

Part of Speech:Noun Masculine

Strongs
Definition:

a park that is (specifically) an Eden (place of future happiness paradise)


Thayers
Definition:

1. among 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

2. a garden, pleasure ground

a. grove, park

3. the 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

4. the upper regions of the heavens. According to the early church Fathers, the paradise in which our first parents dwelt before the fall still exists, neither on the earth or in the heavens, but above and beyond the world

5. heaven


Bible References:
Paradise

Translation
Occurrences:
paradise ( 3 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.