Strong’s G3857 · Greek

παράδεισος
parádeisos

Definition

a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise")

Etymology

of Oriental origin (compare H06508);

Where the KJV renders it

  • paradise

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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