Topic
Park
6 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Nehemiah 2:8ISBE
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me,…
- Ecclesiastes 2:5ISBE
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
- Song of Songs 4:13ISBE
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
- Luke 23:43ISBE
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
- 2 Corinthians 12:4ISBE
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
- Revelation 2:7ISBE
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
park (pardec; Septuagint paradeisos; compare Arabic firdaus): "I made me gardens and parks," the King James Version "orchards" (Ec 2:5); "Asaph the keeper of the king's forest," the Revised Version margin "park" (Ne 2:8). The same word occurs in So 4:13, "Thy shoots are an orchard (the Revised Version margin "paradise") of pomegranates." according to Liddell and Scott, paradeisos occurs first in Xenophon, who always uses it of the parks of Persian kings and noblemen. Like many other quadriliterals the word is undoubtedly of eastern origin. It seems to connote an enclosure. It is used in Septuagint of the Garden of Eden. Compare Lu 23:43; 2Co 12:4; Re 2:7.
See PARADISE.
Alfred Ely Day
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.