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oÌ‚r´chẽrd: (1) פּרדּס, pardeÌ„sÌ£, from Old Persian, “a walled-in enclosureâ€; παÏαÌδεισος, paraÌdeisos, a word in classical Greek applied to the garden of Babylon (Diodorus Siculus xi. 10) and to a game park (Xenophon, Anab. i. 2, 7). See , “forest,†margin “parkâ€; , “orchard,†margin “paradise†(of pomegranates); , “parks,†the King James Version “orchardsâ€; see PARADISE. (2) κῆπος, keÌ„Ìpos, “garden†or “orchardâ€: “a white thorn in an orchard†(Baruch 6:71).