Koresh כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ

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Koresh
כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ
Transliterationkoresh
Strong's numberH3566
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossCyrus
Occurrences15 in 13 verses
Most frequent inEzra (7)

Koresh (Hebrew כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ, Strong's H3566) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Cyrus”. It occurs 15 times.

Definition

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ch.36.22;
son of: Gedaliah (H1436H)
Also named: ko.resh (כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ "Cyrus" H3567)
§ Cyrus = "posses thou the furnace"
the king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon; first ruler of Persia to make a decree allowing the Israelite exiles to return to Jerusalem

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcyrus (15)
BSBcyrus (15)

Verses

Every verse with Koresh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Isaiah

Daniel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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