Difference between revisions of "Paradise"

<div> '''1: '''''Παράδεισος''''' ''' (Strong'S #3857 — Noun Masculine — paradeisos — par-ad'-i-sos ) </div> <p> is an Oriental word, first used by the historian Xenophon, denoting "the parks of Perisian kings and nobles." It is of Persian origin (Old Pers. pairidaeza, akin to Gk. peri, "around," and teichos, "a wall") whence it passed into Greek. See the Sept., e.g., in &nbsp;Nehemiah 2:8; &nbsp;Ecclesiastes 2:5; Song of &nbsp;Song of Solomon 4:13 . The Sept. translators used it of the garden of Eden, &nbsp;Genesis 2:8 , and in other respects, e.g., &nbsp;Numbers 24:6; &nbsp;Isaiah 1:30; &nbsp;Jeremiah 29:5; &nbsp;Ezekiel 31:8,9 . </p> &nbsp;Luke 23:43&nbsp;2 Corinthians 12:4&nbsp;Hebrews 4:14Rv&nbsp;Revelation 2:7&nbsp;Genesis 2:8