Bible Names

Persia: meaning of the name

Persia means “that cuts or divides; a nail; a gryphon; a horseman.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Persia in Hebrew and Greek

פָּרַס H6539

Pâraç (paw-ras') — Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants

of foreign origin;

פָּרַס H6540

Pâraç (paw-ras') — {Paras (i.e. Persia), an Eastern country, including its inhabitants}

(Aramaic) corresponding to H6539 (פָּרַס)

Places named Persia

Persia in Scripture

“Persia” appears in 25 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:20

    And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

  • 2 Chronicles 36:22

    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

  • 2 Chronicles 36:23

    Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.

  • Ezra 1:1

    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

  • Ezra 1:2

    Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

  • Ezra 1:8

    Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

  • Ezra 3:7

    They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

  • Ezra 4:3

    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.