כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ9 H3567
Cyrus; the Persian emperor who authorized the return of the Jewish exiles and the rebuilding of the temple.
The proper name Koresh (Cyrus), referring to Cyrus II ('the Great'), founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE and issued the decree permitting the Jews to return and rebuild the Jerusalem temple. All eight occurrences appear in Ezra and Daniel, framing him as the instrument of divine purpose. The multilingual renderings — Spanish Ciro, French Cyrus, German Koresch/Kyrus — reflect the name's passage through Greek Kyros from Old Persian Kuruš.
Senses
1. Koresh — The Persian king Cyrus the Great, whose edict authorized the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple. In Ezra 5:13–17 and 6:3, he is cited as the originator of the decree that Sheshbazzar carried out; in Daniel 6:29, he appears as successor to Darius the Mede. The name functions throughout as a political-historical anchor tying the restoration narrative to verifiable imperial chronology. Spanish Ciro, French Cyrus, and German Kyrus all descend from the Greek rendering Κῦρος of Old Persian Kuruš. 8×
AR["كُورَش", "كُورَشَ", "لِ-كُورَش"]·ben["কোরশের", "কোরস", "কোরসের"]·DE["Koresch", "Kyrus", "zu-Kyrus"]·EN["Koresh", "of-Koresh"]·FR["Cyrus", "[לכורש]"]·heb["כורש", "ל-כורש"]·HI["कोरेश", "कोरेश-के"]·ID["Koresh"]·IT["Ciro", "[לכורש]"]·jav["Kores", "Korès", "asmanipun", "dhateng-Kores", "dipun-pasang", "kang-Kores"]·KO["고레스", "의-고레스"]·PT["Koresh", "de-Koresh"]·RU["Кореш", "Кореша"]·ES["Ciro", "Koresh", "de-Ciro", "de-Koresh"]·SW["Koreshi", "wa-Koreshi", "ya-Koreshi"]·TR["Kores", "Koresin", "Koreş'in"]·urd["خورس", "لے-کورش", "لے-کورش-کے", "کورش", "کورش-نے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ9 n.pr.m. Cyrus (BH id.);—Dn 6:28; Ezr 5:13 + 6 times Ezr.