פַּרְדֵּס
park
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6508 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פרדס (pardêç) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “park.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. Nehemiah dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. Scripture first uses it in Nehemiah 2:8. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6508 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 33%
- Ecclesiastes 1 verse 33%
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are an orchard 1×, Forest 1×, Orchards 1×
- American Standard Version: 's forest 1×, Are an orchard 1×, Parks 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Forest 1×, Orchard 1×, Parks 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Forest 1×, Orchard of 1×, Royal parks 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6508 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6508 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6508 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6508 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- park, preserve, enclosed garden, forest
Word origin
n.[m.] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in EwJarhb. v. 162f., cf. SpiegAvesta i, 293; Pers. پاليز, pâlêz LagGes. Abh. 75, 211, Kurd. parês NöZMG xxxvi (1882), 182; hence Armenian paṛtêz LagArm. Stud. § 1878, late Assyrian pardîsu MeissnZA vi. 290, Arabic فِرْدَوْسٌ; Gk. παράδεισος; cf. also DlPa 95 ff. Di Gn 2:8);—הַפּ׳ Ne 2:8 (containing trees); cstr. פַּרְדֵּס רִמּוֹנִים Ct 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); pl. פַּרְדֵּסִים Ec 2:5 (+ גַּנּוֹת).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of foreign origin
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פַּרְדֵּס
- v. Ges. Hebr. Dict.10 s. v.) enclosure, park, pleasure garden. Tosef. Bets. I, 10 החיה שקינתה בפ׳ game which nests in a park. Sot. 10ᵃ (ref. to אשל, Gen. XXI, 33) עשה פ׳ ונטע וכ׳ he made a garden and planted therein &c.; Gen. R. s. 54; a. e.—Trnsf. enclosure in heaven, esoteric philosophy. Ḥag. 14ᵇ ארבעה נכנסו לפ׳ וכ׳ four men entered the enclosure (engaged in esoteric philosophy), one cast a look and died &c.; Tosef. ib. II, 3; Y. ib. II, 77ᵇ top.—Pl. פַּרְדֵּסוֹת, פַּרְדֵּי׳. Arakh. III, 2 (14ᵃ) פ׳ סבסטי the pleasure gardens of Sebaste, v. חוֹלַת; Tosef. ib. II, 8. Pes. 56ᵃ פורצין ובפַרְדְּסוֹתֵיהֶן … (some ed. ובפַרְדְּסֵיהֶן) made openings in their gardens and orchards; Men. 71ᵃ; Tosef. Pes. II (III), 21; a. e. e.g. Genesis 21:33
פַּרְדֵּס ²
- Targ. Y. II, Gen. XXI, 33 (h. text אשל, v. preced.).—B. Mets. 103ᵃ if a person says, lend me thy hoe למירפק ביה האי פ׳ … ההוא פ׳ to dig up this garden with it, he is allowed to use it for that garden only; פ׳ … כל פ׳ וכ׳ if he says, ‘a garden’, he may use it for any garden he chooses.—Pl. פַּרְדֵּסִין, פַּרְדְּסַיָּא; פַּרְדֵּי׳, פַּרְדֵּיסֵי. Targ. Jud. IV, 5. Targ. Y. Gen. XIV, 10 (h. text השדים). Targ. Koh. II, 5; a. e.—B. Mets. l. c. פ׳ רפיק ואזיל כל פ׳ וכ׳ if he says, ‘to dig up gardens’, he may use it for all the gardens he has.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6508 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פַּרְדֵּ֜ס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 2:8 | 1 |
| וּ/פַרְדֵּסִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 2:5 | 1 |
| פַּרְדֵּ֣ס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Song of Solomon 4:13 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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