Strong H6540פָּרַס
Persia
- Transliteration
- pâras
- Pronunciation
- paw-ras'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
(Chaldee); corresponding to H6539 : - {Persia} Persians.
Meaning of the name
Persia = "pure" or "splendid"
Detailed definition
Aramaic of pa.ras (פָּרַס "Persia" H6539)
In the biblical story
Persia
An empire that ruled over the exiled Jews
Persia was the empire that conquered Babylon and allowed the exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
In the Bible
Strong H6540 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- persians4
- persia2
First verses
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 6:14And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
- Daniel 5:28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- Daniel 6:8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:12Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:15Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.