Pâraç — H6540

Definition

people proper noun

Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants

1. Persia = "pure" or "splendid"
2. the empire Persia; encompassed the territory from India on the east to Egypt and Thrace on the west, and included, besides portions of Europe and Africa, the whole of western Asia between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian and the Jaxartes on the north, the Arabian desert, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean on the south
1. Persia proper was bounded on the west by Susiana or Elam, on the north by Media, on the south by the Persian Gulf and on the east by Carmania
3. Persian = see Persia "pure" or "splendid"
4. the people of the Persian empire

Usually translated as

Persians, Persia

Origin

(Aramaic) corresponding to H6539

• Pâraç (H6539)

Occurrences

Pâraç occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezra (2), Daniel (4)

• Ezra 4:24 — Then 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 (פָּרָֽס).
• Ezra 6:14 — And 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 (פָּרָֽס).
• Daniel 5:28 — PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians (וּפָרָֽס).
• Daniel 6:8 — Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians (וּפָרַ֖ס), which altereth not.
• Daniel 6:12 — Then 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 (וּפָרַ֖ס), which altereth not.
• Daniel 6:15 — Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians (וּפָרַ֔ס) is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.