Lexical Summary Koresh: a person king Original Word: כּוֹרֶשׁTransliteration: Koresh Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-resh) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: a person king Meaning: Cyrus -- a person king Strong's Concordance Cyrus Or (Ezra 1:1 (last time), Ezra 1:2) Koresh {ko'-resh}; from the Persians; Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king -- Cyrus. see HEBREW 'ab Brown-Driver-Briggs H3566. Koresh כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ and (Ezra 1:1-2,) כֹּ֫רֶשׁ proper name, masculine Cyrus (Persian K'ur'u(š), SpiegAPK 215; Babylonian Kuraš COT on 1:1, Dl in BaerDn. p. x) — king of (Anzan = Susiana, TieleBabylonian -Assyr. Geschichte. 469, and) Persia, conqueror of Babylon (Tieleib. 468 ff.), restorer of Jews to Palestine Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; Ezra 1:7; called מָּרַס מֶלֶךְ2 Chronicles 36:22 (twice in verse); 36:23; Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); 1:2, also 1:8; 4:3, 5; Daniel 10:1; simply הֵמֶּלֶךְ 1:21. כֹּרֶשׁ proper name, masculine see כּוֺרֶשׁ. כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ9 proper name, masculine Cyrus (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 6:28; Ezra 5:13 6t. Ezra. [כִּכַּר], רִין כִּכְּ see כרר. כֹּל see כלל. |
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