Persia
pur'-sha, (parats; Persia; in Assyrian Parsu, Parsua; in
Achemenian Persian Parsa, modern Fars): In the Bible (2 Ch
36:20,22,23; Ezr 1:1,8; Est 1:3,14,18; 10:2; Ezek 27:10;
38:5; Dan 8:20; 10:1; 11:2) this name denotes properly the
modern province of Fars, not the whole Persian empire. The
latter was by its people called Airyaria, the present ...
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An empire which extended from India to Ethiopia, comprising
one-hundred and twenty-seven provinces
Es 1:1; Da 6:1
-Government of, restricted by constitutional limitations
Es 8:8; Da 6:8-12
-Municipal governments in, provided with dual governors
Ne 3:9,12,16-18
-The princes were advisors in matters of administration
Da 6:1-7
-Status of wome...
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(pure, splended), Per'sians. Persia proper was a tract of
no very large dimensions on the Persian Gulf, which is still
known as Fars or Farsistan, a corruption of the ancient
appellation. This tract was bounded on the west by Susiana
or Elam, on the north by Media on the south by the Persian
Gulf and on the east by Carmania. But the name is mo...
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an ancient empire, extending from the Indus to Thrace, and
from
the Caspian Sea to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
The
Persians were originally a Medic tribe which settled
in Persia,
on the eastern side of the Persian Gulf. They were
Aryans, their
language belonging to the eastern division of the
Indo-European
group. One of their chiefs...
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Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 38:5. "Persia proper" was originally
a small territory (Herodot. 9:22). On the N. and N.E. lay
Media, on the S. the Persian gulf, Elam on the W., on the E.
Carmania. Now Furs, Farsistan. Rugged, with pleasant valleys
and plains in the mid region and mountains in the N. The S.
toward the sea is a hot sandy plain, in place...
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that cuts or divides; a nail; a gryphon; a horseman...
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And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath,
Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king
of Persia; and the writing of the letter [was] written in the
Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue....
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But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the
fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with
us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together
will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king
of Persia hath commanded us....
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For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our
bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the
kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of
our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us
a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem....
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And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through
the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of
Iddo. And they builded, and finished [it], according to the
commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the
commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of
Persia....
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