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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 kjv@Luke:23:43; kjv@2Corinthians:12:4; kjv@Revelation:2:7). For "garden" in kjv@Genesis:2:8 the LXX. has "paradise."