Quick Definition
Persia
Biblical Persons & Places
Strong's Definition
Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants
Derivation: of foreign origin;
KJV Usage: Persia, Persians.
TWOT Reference: 1820
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרַס (pa.ras) — 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"
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
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Names of Groups | Names of Locations
Persia, Persian = a nation and its territory, which was greatly expanded during the reign of Cyrus I.
2CH 36:20 · 2CH 36:22 · 2CH 36:22 · 2CH 36:23 · EZR 1:1 · EZR 1:1 · EZR 1:2 · EZR 1:8 · EZR 3:7 · EZR 4:3 · EZR 4:5 · EZR 4:5 · EZR 4:7 · EZR 4:24 · EZR 6:14 · EZR 7:1 · EZR 9:9 · EST 1:3 · EST 1:14 · EST 1:18 · EST 1:19 · EST 10:2 · EZK 27:10 · EZK 38:5 · DAN 5:28 · DAN 6:9 · DAN 6:13 · DAN 6:16 · DAN 8:20 · DAN 10:1 · DAN 10:13 · DAN 10:13 · DAN 10:20 · DAN 11:2
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרַס 28 n.pr.terr. Persia base