How to Pronounce Paradise
PAIR-uh-dyse
Paradise is pronounced PAIR-uh-dyse (ˈpɛərədaɪs): three syllables, stress on the first.
What is Paradise?
A Persian word (pardes), properly meaning a “pleasure-ground” or “park” or “king’s garden.” (See EDEN.) It came in course of time to be used as a name for the world of happiness and rest hereafter (Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7). For “garden” in Gen. 2:8 the LXX. has “paradise.”
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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