H6539
פָּרַס
Persia
§ Persia = "pure" or "splendid" 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 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 Persian, of Persia "pure" or "splendid"
Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry
פָּרַס28 proper name, of a territory Persia, περσῶν (genitive), Dan 11:2 τῇ Περσίδι (ᵐ5 and Θ), 2Chr 36:20 Μήδων (Old Persian Pârsa, Persian, Persia, SpiegAPK 231, New Persian , ; Arabic ; — ׳פ 2Chr 36:22 +, פָּרָ֑ס v2Chr 36:20 +; — in late literature, 2Chr 36:20, v2Chr 36:22, 22, 23 = Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); Ezra 1:2; Dan 10:1 + 11 t. Ezra Daniel + (with מָדַי) Esth 1:3; Esth 1:14; Esth 1:18; Esth 1:19; Esth 10:2; Dan 8:20 ׳פ Ezek 27:10; Ezek 38:5 is doubted by Toy (who, Ezek 27:10, reads כּוּשׁ, after Gr), but Krae defends.
פָּרַס proper name, of a territory and people Persia (as kingdom), Persians (see Biblical Hebrew id.); — ׳פ Dan 6:9; Dan 6:13; Dan 6:16 פָּרָ֑ס Dan 5:28; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 6:14.
18 occurrences
II Chronicles (2), Ezra (8), Esther (2), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (4)