(also
enclosed park or pleasure-ground, Oriental word first used by X., always in reference to the parks of the Persian kings and nobles;
2. generally, garden, orchard, PRLaws 33.11 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen. 33.3 (iii B. C.), OGI 90.15 (Rosetta, ii B. C.), LXX Ca. 4.13, Ecc 2:5, CIG 2694b (Mylasa), PFay. 55.7 (ii A. D.), etc.
3. the garden of Eden, LXX Gen 2:8. Paradise, the abode of the blessed, Luk 23:43; Luk 23:1-56:2Co 12:4. expl. of
II stupid fellow, Com.Adesp. 1102. (Persian word, cf. Poll. 9.13, Phot., and Avest. pairidaçza - ’enclosure’.)
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, Luk 23:43; 2Co 12:4; Rev 2:7
G3857 —
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: Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 14; (1, 4, 5); 8, 1, 38; oec. 4, 13 and 14; anab. 1, 2, 7, 9; Theophrastus, h. pl. 5, 8, 1; Diodorus 16, 41; 14, 80; Pint. Artax. 25, cf. Curt; 8, 1, 11.
2. universally, a garden, pleasure-ground; grove, park: Lucian, v. h. 2, 23; Aelian v. h. 1, 33; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 14, 4; 8, 7, 3; 9, 10, 4; 10, 3, 2 and 11, 1; b. j. 6, 1, 1; (c. Apion. 1, 19, 9 (where cf. Müller)); Susanna 4, 7, 15, etc.; Sir. 24:30; and so it passed into the Hebrew language,
3. that part of Hades which was thought by the later Jews to be the abode of the souls of the pious until the resurrection: Luk 23:43, cf. 16:23f. But some (e. g. Dillmann (as below, p. 379)) understand that passage of the heavenly paradise.
4. an upper region in the heavens: 2Co 12:4 (where some maintain, others deny, that the term is equivalent to
παράδεισος , - ου , ὁ
(an Oriental word, first used by Xen . of the parks of Persian kings and nobles),
[in LXX chiefly for H1588, Gen 1:8 ff ., al. ; also for H5731, Isa 51:3; H6508, Neh 2:8, Ecc 2:5;]
1. a park, pleasure-ground, garden ( LXX ), an orchard (in Papyri, v. MM , ii, xviii; Deiss., BS , 148).
2. Paradise, the abode of the blessed dead: Luk 23:43, 2Co 12:4, Rev 2:7. †