King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3566
Transliteration: Koresh
Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-resh)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a person king
Meaning: Cyrus -- a person king
Word Summary
Koresh: a person king
Original Word: כּוֹרֶשׁTransliteration: Koresh
Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-resh)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a person king
Meaning: Cyrus -- a person king
Strong's Concordance
Cyrus Or (Ezra 1:1 (last time), Ezra 1:2) Koresh {ko'-resh}; from the Persians; Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king -- Cyrus.
see HEBREW 'ab
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3566. Koresh
כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ and (Ezra 1:1-2,) כֹּ֫רֶשׁ proper name, masculine Cyrus (Persian K'ur'u(š), SpiegAPK 215; Babylonian Kuraš COT on 1:1, Dl in BaerDn. p. x) — king of (Anzan = Susiana, TieleBabylonian -Assyr. Geschichte. 469, and) Persia, conqueror of Babylon (Tieleib. 468 ff.), restorer of Jews to Palestine Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; Ezra 1:7; called מָּרַס מֶלֶךְ2 Chronicles 36:22 (twice in verse); 36:23; Ezra 1:1 (twice in verse); 1:2, also 1:8; 4:3, 5; Daniel 10:1; simply הֵמֶּלֶךְ 1:21.
כֹּרֶשׁ proper name, masculine see כּוֺרֶשׁ.
כּ֫וֺרֶשׁ9 proper name, masculine Cyrus (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Daniel 6:28; Ezra 5:13 6t. Ezra.
[כִּכַּר], רִין כִּכְּ see כרר. כֹּל see כלל.