noun · masculine
paradeisos
Strong’sG3857
Paradise
stem paradeis-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
παράδεισος, -ου, ὁ
(an Oriental word, first used by Xen. of the parks of Persian kings and nobles), [in LXX chiefly for גַּן, Ge 1:8 ff., al.; also for עֵדֶן, Is 51:3; פַּרְדֵּס, Ne 2:8, Ec 2:5;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3857 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-ad'-i-sos
a park, i.e. (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, "paradise")
Fromof Oriental origin (compare );
King Jamesparadise.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(also παράδισος Refs 3rd c.BC+, enclosed park or pleasure-ground, Oriental word first used by Refs 5th c.BC+ always in reference to the parks of the Persian kings and nobles; π. μέγας ἀγρίων θηρίων πλήρης Refs; π. δασὺς παντοίων δένδρωνLXX+4th c.BC+
2 generally, garden, orchard, LXX+3rd c.BC+
3 the garden of Eden, LXX
3.b Paradise, the abode of the blessed, NT
3.c explanation of μακάρων νῆσοι, Refs 8th c.BC+
II stupid fellow, Refs 2nd c.AD+, and Avest. pairidaēza- 'enclosure'.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | paradeisos | paradeisois |
| object accusative | paradeison1×παράδεισον | paradeisoin |
| direct address vocative | paradeisor | paradeisoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | paradeisou | paradeisoiu |
| to, for dative | paradeiso2×παραδείσῳ | paradeisoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
paradeiso is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
paradeison“paradise”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Corinthians 12:4hoti harpazita eis ton paradeison kai akouata arrēteim rēmeim heim ouk …was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were inexpressible …
paradeiso“paradise”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 23:43… sēmeron meta mu esi en to paradeiso.… you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Revelation 2:7… tau zōau, hem atō en to paradeiso tou theou.… the tree of life in the Paradise of God.