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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(
sun
). Founder of the Persian empire ({vi 21934;22050}Dan. 6:28; 11:13; 2 Chron. 36:22). United
Media
to
Persia
. Conquered
Babylon
, B. C. 538, and reigned over the consolidated empire till B. C. 529. A guardian and liberator of captive Jews ({vi 18562;18563-18569}Isa. 44:28; 45:1-7).
Daniel
was his favorite
minister
. See Daniel, also ({vi 20466-20469;20510;20533;20560-20564;20567}Ezek. 1:1-4; 3:7; 4:3; 5:13-17; 6:3).
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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Called several
times
in
scripture
“
the
king of
Persia
,” though from the
monuments
he is found to
have
been
also
king of
Elam
, and is otherwise called the founder of the
Persian
empire. On his taking
Babylon
, the
second
great
Gentile empire of
Daniel
was
set
up. He was prophesied of by
name
long
before his birth; that he would be
God
’s
shepherd
, to perform
all
His pleasure, and that he would say to
Jerusalem
, “Thou shalt be built; and to
the
temple
, Thy foundation shall be laid.” He is also called
the
anointed
of
Jehovah
, to subdue nations (
type
of
Christ
restoring
Judah
in the
last days
) (Isa. 44:28; Isa. 45:1). When the 70 years’
captivity
of which
Jeremiah
prophesied were expired (Jer. 25:12; Jer. 29:10), God stirred up the
spirit
of Cyrus, and a proclamation was made that the
house
of the
Lord
God of
Israel
was to be rebuilt, and permission was
given to
the
captives
to return. He also restored the
holy
vessels
that had
been carried from Jerusalem to Babylon. It was called the first
year
of Cyrus, when he began to reign alone over Babylon ({vi 12018-12028}Ezra 1:1-11; {vi 12016-12017}2 Chron. 36:22-23).
This
would be
about
B.C. 536, the 70 years of captivity having begun in B.C. 606, the date of the first captivity of Judah. Daniel continued
till
the reign of Cyrus, and speaks of his
third
year (Dan. 6:28; Dan. 10:1).
An
ancient
cylinder speaks of the forces of Cyrus as “marching like a
cloud
, and his
army
as the waters of a
river
: opposition comes to nothing before
him
.” Daniel, in the vision of the
kingdom
founded by Cyrus, and seen under the
figure
of a
ram
, saw it pushing “westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts
might
stand before him, neither was
there
any that could
deliver
out of his hand; but he did according to his own will, and became great” (Dan. 8:4).
For
a list of Persian kings see PERSIA.
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Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
3566
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
Kowresh
Phonic:
ko’-resh
Meaning:
or (Ezra 1:1 (last time),
2
) Koresh {ko'-resh}; from the Persians; Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king
KJV Usage:
Cyrus
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
possess thou the furnace
Potts’
Bible Proper Names
:
The sun; light; spiritual sense:―a hero of Persian history, Isa. 45:1. {Sol}
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