parvaim Summary and Overview

the name of a country from which Solomon obtained gold for the temple (2 Chr. 3:6). Some have identified it with Ophir, but it is uncertain whether it is even the name of a place. It may simply, as some think, denote "Oriental regions."

(Oriental regions), the name of an unknown place or country whence the gold was procured for the decoration of Solomon's temple. #2Ch 3:6| We may notice the conjecture that it is derived from the Sanscrit purva, "eastern," and is a general term for the east.

PARVA'IM (eastern regions) occurs only once, 2 Chr 3:6, and is the name of the country or place producing the gold which Solomon used for the decoration of the temple; but this country or place it has not been possible to identify. Some regard it as an abbreviation for "Sepharvaim," or "Sephar," supposed to be a seaport in Arabia.

Whence gold was brought for Solomon's temple (2 Chronicles 3:6). From Sanskrit paru "hill," the two hills in Arabia mentioned by Ptolemy (vi. 7, section 11, Hitzig). Abbreviated front Sepharvaim, which stands in Syriac version and the targum of Jonathan for Sephar (Zaphar a seaport on the coast of Hadramaut; Genesis 10:30, Knobel). From Sanskrit purva, "eastern" (Gesenius, Thessalonians 2:1125).