H6508. pardes
מַּרְדֵּס noun [masculine] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in EwJahrb. see 162 f., compare SpiegAvesta i. 293; Persian pâlêz LagGes. Abh. 75, 211, Kurdish parês NöZMG xxxvi (1882), 182; hence Armenian partêz LagArm. Stud. § 1878, late Assyrian pardisu MeissnZA vi. 290, Arabic ; Greek παράδεισος; compare also DlPa 95 ff. Di[Gen 2:8]); — ׳הַמּ [Neh 2:8] (containing trees); construct רִמּוֺנִים מַּרְדֵּס [Song 4:13] (fruit-trees and costly plants); plural מַּרְדֵּסִים [Eccl 2:5] (+ גַּנּוֺת).