Strong's Lexicon
paradeisos: Paradise
Original Word:παράδεισος
Part of Speech:Noun, Masculine
Transliteration:paradeisos
Pronunciation:pä-rä'-dā-sos
Phonetic Spelling:(par-ad'-i-sos)
Definition:Paradise
Meaning:Paradise.
Word Origin:Derived from an ancient Persian word "pairidaeza," meaning "enclosure" or "park."
Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: -H6508 (pardes): Refers to a park or orchard, used in Nehemiah 2:8, Ecclesiastes 2:5, and Song of Solomon 4:13.
Usage:In the New Testament, "paradeisos" refers to a place of blessedness and divine presence. It is often associated with the Garden of Eden, a place of original perfection and communion with God. In Christian theology, it also signifies the abode of the righteous after death, a place of rest and joy in the presence of God.
Cultural and Historical Background:The concept of "paradeisos" has its roots in Persian culture, where it described royal parks or gardens. The term was adopted into Greek and later into Jewish and Christian thought, symbolizing a place of beauty, peace, and divine fellowship. In Jewish tradition, it became synonymous with the Garden of Eden and the future hope of restoration. In Christian eschatology, it represents the eternal state of the redeemed.
HELPS Word-studies
3857parádeisos – an ancient Persian word meaning "enclosure, garden, park."
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originof Pers. origin (enclosure)
Definitiona park, a garden, a paradise
NASB TranslationParadise (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3857: παράδεισοςπαράδεισος,
παραδείσου,
ὁ (thought by most to be of Persian orion, by others of Armenian, cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 1124; (
B. D., under the word; especially Fried. Delitzsch, We lag das Paradies? Leipzig 1881, pp. 95-97; cf. Max Müller, Selected Essays, i., 129f)),
1. among the Persiansa 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:Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 14; (1, 4, 5); 8, 1, 38; oec. 4, 13 and 14; anab. 1, 2, 7, 9;Theophrastus, h. pl. 5, 8, 1;Diodorus 16, 41; 14, 80; Pint. Artax. 25, cf. Curt; 8, 1, 11.
2. universally,a garden, pleasure-ground; grove, park:Lucian, v. h. 2, 23;Aelian v. h. 1, 33;Josephus, Antiquities 7, 14, 4; 8, 7, 3; 9, 10, 4; 10, 3, 2 and 11, 1;b. j. 6, 1, 1; (c. Apion. 1, 19, 9 (where cf. Müller)); Susanna 4, 7, 15, etc.; Sir. 24:30; and so it passed into the Hebrew language,פַּרְדֵּס,Nehemiah 2:8;Ecclesiastes 2:5;Song of Solomon 4:13; besides in theSept. mostly forגַּן; thus, for that delightful region, 'the garden of Eden,' in which our first parents dwelt before the fall:Genesis 2:8ff; 3:1ff.
3.that part of Hades which was thought by the later Jewsto be the abode of the souls of the pious until the resurrection:Luke 23:43, cf. 16:23f. But some (e. g. Dillmann (as below, p. 379)) understand that passage of the heavenly paradise.
4.an upper region in the heavens:2 Corinthians 12:4 (where some maintain, others deny, that the term is equivalent toὁτρίτοςοὐρανός in2 Corinthians 12:2); with the addition ofτοῦΘεοῦ, genitive of possessor, the abode of God and heavenly beings, to which true Christians will be taken after death,Revelation 2:7 (cf.Genesis 13:10;Ezekiel 28:13;Ezekiel 31:8). According to the opinion of many of the church Fathers, the paradise in which our first parents dwelt before the fall still exists, neither on earth nor in the heavens, but above and beyond the world; cf. Thilo, Cod. apocr. Nov. Test., on Evang. Nicod. c. xxv., p. 748ff; and Bleek thinks that the word ought to be taken in this sense inRevelation 2:7. Cf. Dillmann under the word Paradies inSchenkel iv. 377ff; also Hilgenfeld, Die Clement. Recogn. und Hom., p. 87f; Klöpper on2 Corinthians 12:2-4, p. 507ff ((Göttingen, 1869). See alsoB. D.,under the word; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia,under the word;Hamburger, Real-Encyclopädie, Abtheil. ii, under the word.)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
paradise.Of Oriental origin (comparepardec); a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise") -- paradise.
see HEBREWpardec
Forms and Transliterations
παράδεισοι παραδεισον παράδεισον παράδεισος παραδείσου παραδείσους παραδεισω παραδείσω παραδείσῳ paradeiso paradeisō paradeísoi paradeísōi paradeison parádeisonLinks
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