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Where Does the Word Paradise Come From?
A Persian word for a walled garden, borrowed into Hebrew as a plain orchard, that became heaven.
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Imported citation, not independently checked: B. J. Noonan, Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible (2019), bedrock
Imported citation, not independently checked: Xenophon, Anabasis; Oeconomicus
Imported citation, not independently checked: Nehemiah 2:8
Imported citation, not independently checked: Septuagint, Genesis 2:8
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