3857. paradeisos

Lexicon

paradeisos: Paradise

Original Word: παράδεισος
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: paradeisos
Pronunciation: pä-rä'-dā-sos
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ad'-i-sos)
KJV: paradise
NASB: Paradise
Word Origin: [of Oriental origin]

1. a park
2. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise")

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

paradise.

Of Oriental origin (compare pardec); a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise") -- paradise.

see HEBREW pardec

HELPS Word-studies

3857 parádeisos – an ancient Persian word meaning "enclosure, garden, park."

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of Pers. origin (enclosure)
Definition
a park, a garden, a paradise
NASB Translation
Paradise (3).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3857: παράδεισος

παράδεισος, 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 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: 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 the Sept. mostly for גַּן; 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 Jews to 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 to ὁ τρίτος οὐρανός in 2 Corinthians 12:2); with the addition of τοῦ Θεοῦ, 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 in Revelation 2:7. Cf. Dillmann under the word Paradies in Schenkel iv. 377ff; also Hilgenfeld, Die Clement. Recogn. und Hom., p. 87f; Klöpper on 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, p. 507ff ((Göttingen, 1869). See also B. D., under the word; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word; Hamburger, Real-Encyclopädie, Abtheil. ii, under the word.)

Forms and Transliterations

παράδεισοι παραδεισον παράδεισον παράδεισος παραδείσου παραδείσους παραδεισω παραδείσω παραδείσῳ paradeiso paradeisō paradeísoi paradeísōi paradeison parádeison

Englishman's Concordance

Luke 23:43 N-DMS
GRK: ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ
NAS: to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.
KJV: me in paradise.
INT: in Paradise

2 Corinthians 12:4 N-AMS
GRK: εἰς τὸν παράδεισον καὶ ἤκουσεν
NAS: was caught up into Paradise and heard
KJV: into paradise, and
INT: to Paradise and heard

Revelation 2:7 N-DMS
GRK: ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τοῦ θεοῦ
NAS: which is in the Paradise of God.'
KJV: in the midst of the paradise of God.
INT: in the paradise of God

Strong's Greek 3857
3 Occurrences

παραδείσῳ — 2 Occ.
παράδεισον — 1 Occ.