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Persia

An ancient kingdom of Asia, bounded on the north by Media, on the west by Susiana, on the east by Carmania, and on the south by the Persian Gulf. The Persians became very famous from the time of Cyrus, the founder of the Persian monarchy. Persia is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “that cuts or divides; a nail; a gryphon; a horseman.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

View overview sources
  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H6539, H6540
Hebrew
פָּרַס
Name meaning
that cuts or divides; a nail; a gryphon; a horseman According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H6539

פָּרַס

Glosses: Persia

Indexed occurrences: 24

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

H6540

פָּרַס

Glosses: Persia, Persians

Indexed occurrences: 6

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Persia

that cuts or divides; a nail; a gryphon; a horseman

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

PERSIA

an ancient kingdom of Asia, bounded on the north by Media, on the west by Susiana, on the east by Carmania, and on the south by the Persian Gulf. The Persians became very famous from the time of Cyrus, the founder of the Persian monarchy. Their ancient name was Elamites, and in the time of the Roman emperors they went by the name of Parthians;

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references54 references

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Persia

Meaning:
that cuts or divides; a nail; a gryphon; a horseman

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

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