παράδεισος, -ου, ὁ (an Oriental word, first used by Xen. of the parks of Persian kings and nobles) [in LXX chiefly for גַּן, Gen.1:8 ff, al; also for עֵדֶן, Isa.51:3; פַּרְדֵּס, Neh.2:8, Ecc.2:5;] 1) a park, pleasure-ground, garden (LXX), an orchard (in π, see MM, ii, xviii; Deiss, BS, 148). 2)
Paradise, the abode of the blessed dead: Luk.23:43, 2Co.12:4, Rev.2:7. (
AS)