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ôr´chẽrd : (1) פּרדּס , pardēṣ , from Old Persian, "a walled-in enclosure"; παράδεισος , parádeisos , a word in classical Greek applied to the garden of Babylon (Diodorus Siculus xi. 10) and to a game park (Xenophon, Anab . i. 2,7). See Nehemiah 2:8 , "forest," margin "park"; Song of Solomon 4:13 , "orchard," margin "paradise" (of pomegranates); Ecclesiastes 2:5 , "parks," the King James Version "orchards"; see PARADISE . (2) κῆπος , kḗpos , "garden" or "orchard": "a white thorn in an orchard" (Baruch 6:71).

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Orchard'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​o/orchard.html. 1915.
 
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