G3857 – paradeisos – παράδεισος paradise

Strong’s ID:
G3857
Greek Word:
παράδεισος
Transliteration:
paradeisos
Pronunciation:
par-ad’-i-sos
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage Count:
3
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Find “paradeisos” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

of Oriental origin [compare H6508]; a park, i.e. (specifically) an Eden (place of future happiness, “paradise”):—paradise.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

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
2) a garden, pleasure ground
2a) grove, park
3) the part of Hades which was thought by the later Jews to be the abode of the souls of pious until the resurrection: but some understand this to be a heavenly paradise
4) the upper regions of the heavens. According to the early church Fathers, the paradise in which our first parents dwelt before the fall still exists, neither on the earth or in the heavens, but above and beyond the world
5) heaven

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.