ου (ὁ) [ᾰᾰ]
   I parc, lieu planté d’arbres où l’on entretient des animaux, XÉN. An. 1, 2, 7, etc. ; Cyr. 1, 3, 14, etc. ;
   II le paradis, càd. :
      1 l’Éden, SPT. Gen. 2, 8 ;
      2 le séjour des âmes bienheureuses, NT. 2Cor. 12, 4, etc.

Étym. persan pairi-daēza-, clôture ; p. le second terme cf. τεῖχος.

ὁ (also παράδισος SIG 463.8 (Crete, iii BC)), enclosed park or pleasure-ground, Oriental word first used by X., always in reference to the parks of the Persian kings and nobles; π. μέγας ἀγρίων θηρίων πλήρης An. 1.2.7; π. δασὺς παντοίων δένδρων ib. 2.4.14; τὰ ἐν π. θηρία Cyr. 1.3.14; θῆραι… ἐν περιειργμένοις παραδείσοις HG 4.1.15, cf. Thphr. HP 4.44.1, AJA 16.13 (Sardes, 300 BC), LXX Ne. 2.8, Plu. Art. 25. generally, garden, orchard, PRev. Laws 33.11 (iii BC), PCair. Zen. 33.3 (iii BC), OGI 90.15 (Rosetta, ii BC), LXX Ca. 4.13, Ec. 2.5, CIG 2694b (Mylasa), PFay. 55.7 (ii AD), etc.
the garden of Eden, LXX Ge. 2.8.
Paradise, the abode of the blessed, Ev. Luc. 23.43, 2 Ep. Cor. 12.4. expl. of μακάρων νῆσοι, Procl. ad Hes. Op. 169.
stupid fellow, Com.Adesp. 1102. (Persian word, cf. Poll. 9.13, Phot., and Avest. pairidaēza- ΄enclosure΄.)

ὁ, Tiergarten, Park, persisches Wort ; παραδείσους μεστοὺς δένδρων καὶ θηρίων, Xen. Hell. 4.1.15, vgl. Cyr. 1.4.11, Oec. 4.20 ; Clearch. bei Ath. XII.515e u. A. – Das Paradies, LXX u. NT.

παράδεισος, -ου, ὁ
(an Oriental word, first used by Xen. of the parks of Persian kings and nobles) [in LXX chiefly for גַּן, Gen.1:8 ff., al.; also for עֵדֶן, Isa.51:3; פַּרְדֵּס, Neh.2:8, Ecc.2:5 ;]
__1. a park, pleasure-ground, garden (LXX), an orchard (in π., see MM, ii, xviii; Deiss., BS, 148).
__2. Paradise, the abode of the blessed dead: Luk.23:43, 2Co.12:4, Rev.2:7.†
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