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παράδεισος, ου, ὁ n.m. Paradise
Strong's Definition
of Oriental origin (compare 6508); a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise")
KJV Usage: paradise
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου
1.14 · Geographical Objects and Features · Regions Above the Earth
paradise a dwelling place of the righteous dead in a state of blessedness (generally equated with οὐρανός[b] ‘heaven,’ 1.11) In some languages ‘paradise’ has been translated by a borrowed term, but more often than not it is rendered by an expression which is roughly equivalent to ‘that wonderful place’ or even ‘that wonderful place in heaven.’
In REV 2:7 ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τοῦ θεοῦ ‘in the paradise of God,’ the reference may reflect somewhat more closely the historical background of this term, which is derived from an Old Persian word meaning ‘enclosure,’ and thus was applied to a ‘garden’ or ‘park.’ For that reason, a number of commentators have believed that in REV 2:7, it is appropriate to translate ‘the garden of God,’ especially since in the context the reference is to the fruit of the tree of life.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παράδεισος, -ov, 6, (thought by most to be of Persian origin, by others of Armenian, cf. Gesenius, Thes. ii. Ρ- 1124; [B. D.s.v.; esp. Fried. Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? Leipzig 1881, pp. 95-97; cf. Max Miiller, Selected Essays, i. 129 sq.]), 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: Xen. Cyr. 1, 3, 14; [1, 4, 5]; 8, 1, 838; oec. 4, 13 and 14; anab. 1, 2, 7.9; Theophr. h. pl. 5, 8,1; Diod. 16, 41; 14, 80; Plut. Artax. 25, cf. Curt. 8, 1, 11. 2. univ. a garden, pleasureground; grove, park: Leian. v.h. 2, 23; Ael. v.h. 1, 335 Joseph. antt. 7, 14,43 8,7,3; 9,10, 4; 10, 3,2 and 11, 1; Ὁ. j. 6, 1, 1; [e. Apion. 1, 19, 9 (where ef. Miiller)]; Sus. 4, 7, 15, etc.; Sir. xxiv. 30; and so it passed inte the Hebr. language, 0399, Neh. ii.8; Eccl. ii. 5; Cant. iv. 13; besides in Sept. mostly for 2; thus for that delightful region, ‘the garden of Eden,’ in which our first parents dwelt before the fall: Gen. ii. 8 sqq.}; iii. 1 8566. 3. that part of Hades which was thought by the later Jews do be the abode of the souls of the pious until the resurrection: Lk. xxiii. 43, ef. xvi. 23 sqq. But some [e. g. Dillmann (as below p. 379)] understand that passage of the heavenly paradise. 4. an upper region in the heavens: 2 Co. xii. 4 (where some maintain, others deny, that the term is equiv. to ὁ τρίτος οὐρανός in vs. 2); with the addition of τοῦ θεοῦ, gen. of possessor, the abode of God and heavenly beings, to which true Christians will be taken after death, Rev. ii. 7 (cf. Gen. xiii. 10; Ezek. xxviii. 13; xxxi. 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; ef. Thilo, Cod. apocr. Nov. Test., on Evang. Nicod. ec. xxv. p. 748 sqq.; and Bleek thinks that the word ought to be taken in this sense in Rev. ii. 7. Cf. Dillmann s. v. Paradies in Schenkel iv. 377 sqq.; also Hilgenfeld, Die Clement. Recogn. und Hom. p. 87 sq.; Klépper on 2 Co. xii. 2-4, p. 507 sqq. [(Gottingen, 1869). See also B.D.s.v.; McC. and S.s. v.; Hamburger, Real-Encyclopiidie, Abtheil. ii. s. v.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παράδεισος paradeisos 3x
a park, a forest where wild beasts were kept for hunting; a pleasure-park, a garden of trees of various kinds; used in the LXX for the Garden of Eden; in NT the celestial paradise, Lk. 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παράδεισος, -ου, ὁ
(an Oriental word, first used by Xen. of the parks of Persian kings and nobles), [in LXX chiefly for גַּן, Ge 1:8 ff., al.; also for עֵדֶן, Is 51:3; פַּרְדֵּס, Ne 2:8, Ec 2:5;]
a park, pleasure-ground, garden (LXX), an orchard (in π., v. MM, ii, xviii; Deiss., BS, 148).
Paradise, the abode of the blessed dead: Lk 23:43, II Co 12:4, Re 2:7.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παράδεισος. The essential features of this foreign (Iranian) word cling to it in its wide popular use and pass on into the applications found in the Bible. The modern Persian patéz means a garden, as does παράδεισος from the earliest records we have of it in Greek (Xen. Azad. i. 2. 7 etc.). A garden of fruit-trees (protected presumably by a wall) is the general idea of it as seen in the papyri where it is very common. Thus we have P Petr III. 26° (iii/B.c.) ets ἀλλότριον κλῆρον ἢ παράδεισον ἢ κῆπον ἢ ἀμπίελῶ]να, bringing together ‘‘ plot or orchard or garden or vineyard,”’ P Tebt I. 5° (B.c. 118) τὰς ἀπομοίρας ἃς ἐλάμβαν[ο]ν ἔκ τε τῶν κ]τηιμάτων Kal τῶν [π]αραδεί(σων), “the tithes which they (the temples) nsed to receive from the holdings and the orchards,’’-—and OGZS οοἱ" (Rosetta stone—B.C. 196) τὰς καθηκούσας ἀπομοίρας τοῖς θεοῖς ἀπό τε τῆς ἀμπελίτιδος γῆς καὶ τῶν παραδείσων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ὑπαρξάντων τοῖς θεοῖς. In P Lond 933” (Α.Ὁ. 211) (ΞΞ- ΠΙ. p. 69) there is a payment on account of an “* olive-orchard,” ἐλαιωνοπαράδ(εισος). In P Petr 1. 16%:7 (B.c. 230) Mahaffy translates τὰ γενήματα τῶν ὑπἀρχόντων μοι παραδείσων, ‘the produce of my parks,” but the mere mention of froduce shows that “orchards” are meant: see further Grenfell’s note in P Rev L p. 94 ff and Wilcken Ostr, i. p. 157f. From Genesis to Revelation fruit-trees are an essential part of the imagery connected with Eden. Milton’s picture brings in the wall as well. And this part of the word’s connotation suits strikingly the thought of that ‘‘fold” of God over whose jasper wall “‘oreat and high’”’ the ‘‘first grand Thief” shall never climb. Deissmann (8% p. 148) finds the earliest ex. of the word in its technical Biblical meaning in 2 Cor 12%, then Lk 234° and Rev 27; 4 Esdr 758, 852. For the Jewish conception of the ‘‘garden” as the abode of the blessed cf. Enoch Ixi. 12, and see Weber μα. Theol. pp. 341, 344. «
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παράδεισος (paradeisos) — paradise. πᾰρᾰδεισ-ος, ὁ (also παράδισος [Refs 3rd c.BC+], enclosed park or pleasure-ground, Oriental word first used by [Refs 5th c.BC+] always in reference to the parks of the Persian kings and nobles; π. μέγας ἀγρίων θηρίων πλήρης [Refs]; π. δασὺς παντοίων δένδρων[LXX+4th c.BC+]
2. generally, garden, orchard, [LXX+3rd c.BC+]
3. the garden of Eden, [LXX]
3. b Paradise, the abode of the blessed, [NT]
3. c explanation of μακάρων νῆσοι, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. stupid fellow, [Refs 2nd c.AD+], and Avest. pairidaēza- 'enclosure'.)