Park
Park
park (, pardes; Septuagint , paradeisos; compare Arabic firdaus): I made me gardens and parks, the King James Version orchards (Ecc 2:5); Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, the Revised Version margin park (Neh 2:8). The same word occurs in Son 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 Luk 23:43; 2Co 12:4; Rev 2:7. See PARADISE.