{"def":{"short":"a park, i.e., (specially), an Eden (place of future happiness, \"paradise\")","long":["among the Persians a grand enclosure or preserve, hunting ground, park, shady and well watered, in which wild animals, were kept for the hunt; it was enclosed by walls and furnished with towers for the hunters","a garden, pleasure ground",["grove, park"],"the part of Hades which was thought by the later Jews to be the abode of the souls of pious until the resurrection: but some understand this to be a heavenly paradise","the upper regions of the heavens"]},"deriv":"of Middle Eastern origin (compare H6508)","pronun":{"ipa":"pɑˈrɑ.ði.sos","ipa_mod":"pɑˈrɑ.ði.sows","sbl":"paradeisos","dic":"pa-RA-thee-sose","dic_mod":"pa-RA-thee-sose"},"see":["H6508"]}