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title: פַּרְדֵּס — preserve · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פַּרְדֵּס (6508), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: preserve. BDB 1906: preserve, park. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פַּרְדֵּס

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«פַּרְדֵּס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **preserve** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6508 · **BDB:** פַּרְדֵּס

### Glosses

\[are\].a.garden (1); forest (1); parks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

preserve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6508/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

preserve, park [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6508/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] preserve, park (loan-word from Zend pairi-daêza, enclosure, Spieg Haug in EwJarhb. v. 162f., cf. SpiegAvesta i, 293; Pers. پاليز, pâlêz LagGes. Abh. 75, 211, Kurd. parês NöZMG xxxvi (1882), 182; hence Armenian paṛtêz LagArm. Stud. § 1878, late Assyrian pardîsu MeissnZA vi. 290, Arabic فِرْدَوْسٌ; Gk. παράδεισος; cf. also DlPa 95 ff. Di Gn 2:8);—הַפּ׳ Ne 2:8 (containing trees); cstr. פַּרְדֵּס רִמּוֹנִים Ct 4:13 (fruit-trees and costly plants); pl. פַּרְדֵּסִים Ec 2:5 (+ גַּנּוֹת).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פַּרְדֵּס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6508/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.13/)

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שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙ פַּרְדֵּ֣ס רִמּוֹנִ֔ים עִ֖ם פְּרִ֣י מְגָדִ֑ים כְּפָרִ֖ים עִם־נְרָדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* shoots your \[are\].a.garden of.pomegranates with fruit of.excellence(s) henna.plants with nard.plants

*JPS 1917:* Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,

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[Ecclesiastes 2:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.5/)

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עָשִׂ֣יתִי לִ֔י גַּנּ֖וֹת וּפַרְדֵּסִ֑ים וְנָטַ֥עְתִּי בָהֶ֖ם עֵ֥ץ כָּל־פֶּֽרִי׃

*Word for word:* I.made for myself gardens and parks and I.planted in them tree\[s\] of.every fruit

*JPS 1917:* I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

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