H3566

כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ

ko.reshN:N-M-P

Cyrus

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ch.36.22; son of: Gedaliah (H1436H) Also named: ko.resh (כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ "Cyrus" H3567) § Cyrus = "posses thou the furnace" the king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon; first ruler of Persia to make a decree allowing the Israelite exiles to return to Jerusalem

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ and (Ezra 1:1; Ezra 1:2) כֹּ֫רֶשׁ proper name, masculine Cyrus (Persian K'ur'u(š), Spieg^{APK 215}; Babylonian Kuraš COT on Ezra 1:1, Dl in Baer^{Dn. p. x}) — king of (Anzan = Susiana, Tiele^{Babylonian -Assyr. Geschichte. 469}, and) Persia, conqueror of Babylon (Tiele^{ib. 468 ff.}), restorer of Jews to Palestine Isa 44:28; Isa 45:1; Ezra 1:7 called מֶלֶךְ פָּרַס 2Chr 36:22 (twice in verse); 2Chr 36:23; Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezra 1:2, also Ezra 1:8; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 4:5; Dan 10:1 simply הֵמֶּלֶךְ Dan 1:21.

כֹּרֶשׁ proper name, masculine see כּוֺרֶשׁ.

כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ₉ proper name, masculine Cyrus (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Dan 6:28; Ezra 5:13 + 6 t. Ezra.

[כִּכַּר], כִּכְּ רִין see כרר. כֹּל see כלל.

12 occurrences

II Chronicles (1), Ezra (7), Isaiah (2), Daniel (2)